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2 Ducats - Wilhelm V von Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg (Dutch States) |
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| Year | 1556-1573 |
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| Value | 2 Ducats (5) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✤ GVIL ⋆ D ⋆ BRON ⋆ LIB ⋆ BARO ⋆ IN ⋆ BATENB (Translation: William of Bronckhorst, free Baron of Batenburg) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Batenburg was a contested lordship on the Guelders-Brabant frontier, and Wilhelm V von Bronckhorst ruled it during precisely the years the Dutch revolt against Habsburg authority was igniting. Small lordships like Batenburg exploited the administrative chaos of the early revolt to assert minting rights — or simply to continue exercising them without challenge — producing gold coinage that circulated more by local convenience than by any recognized monetary authority.
The Delmonte and van der Chijs references place this type within the broader category of autonomous baronial issues that Dutch monetary reformers would spend the following century trying to suppress.