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Angelot - William V of Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg |
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| Year | 1562 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse lettering | SAnCTVS mICHAЄL ARCHAnGЄL (Translation: Saint Michael archangel) |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Barony of Batenburg was a tiny lordship wedged between the Duchy of Gelderland and the Bishop of Utrecht, and its right to strike gold was legally precarious at best. William V exploited a period of Habsburg administrative distraction during the early Dutch Revolt to mint this angelot, a coin type derived directly from the French ange d'or and its Burgundian successors. The type had largely disappeared from serious circulation by the 1560s, making Batenburg's issue something of an anachronism even at the moment of striking.
Delmonte's attribution places this among the rarer baronial gold pieces of the Low Countries.