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1 Ducat - Wilhelm V von Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Batenburg, Barony of |
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| Year | 1556-1573 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDI · ROMA · IMP · SEM · AVGVS (Translation: Ferdinand, ever exalted Emperor of the Romans) |
| Reverse description | Crowned Madonna with the Christ Child, depicted in the devotional style characteristic of Habsburg-influenced Low Countries coinage of the mid-sixteenth century. A heraldic coat of arms, associated with the Barony of Batenburg, divides the legend in the lower field below the central figure. The entire design is enclosed within two pearled circles, with the Latin legend referring to the new gold coinage of Batenburg running between them. |
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Batenburg sat on the Maas just south of Nijmegen, a tiny lordship whose mint rights were exercised with an enthusiasm wildly out of proportion to its political weight. Wilhelm V von Bronckhorst-Batenburg used those rights to strike ducats that closely imitated the Hungarian ducat standard — the dominant gold trade coin of sixteenth-century Europe — which made them commercially acceptable far beyond the barony's own negligible territory. The practice irritated the Habsburg authorities repeatedly, but enforcement in the fractured sovereignty of the Guelders borderlands was never reliable.
Production across a seventeen-year span with minimal surviving documentation means die varieties within this type remain imperfectly catalogued.