1 Ducat - Wilhelm V von Bronckhorst

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.