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Bianco - Willem V van Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Batenburg, Barony of |
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| Year | 1556-1573 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a rampant lion to the right, holding a pennant or banner staff, rendered in the heraldic style characteristic of sixteenth-century Low Countries coinage. The lion stands on a plain ground, its mane and tail elaborately detailed in the hammered tradition. A beaded inner circle frames the central device, beyond which a circular Latin legend reads around the full periphery of the flan. The overall composition is typical of baronial issues of the period, with the lion serving as the armorial device of the Lords of Batenburg. |
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| Obverse lettering | ARGEN ⋆ NOV ⋆ D ⋆ LIBER ⋆ DOMI ⋆ D ⋆ BATE |
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Willem V van Bronckhorst ruled Batenburg during a period when the Low Countries were fracturing under Spanish Habsburg pressure and the early stirrings of the Dutch Revolt. Small lordships like Batenburg occupied an awkward position — too minor to command political leverage, yet still exercising minting rights that larger powers increasingly wanted to suppress. The Burgundian monetary ordinances of the mid-sixteenth century repeatedly attempted to curtail billon coinage from precisely these petty seigneuries, with limited effect.
The bianco denomination itself derives from Italian monetary tradition, diffused northward through Burgundian commercial networks.