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Daalder / 30 Stuivers 'Leeuwendaalder' - William V of Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Barony of Batenburg |
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| Year | 1564 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1564 |
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Batenburg was a tiny lordship straddling the Guelders-Brabant border, and its minting rights were exercised with particular aggression by the lords of Bronckhorst-Batenburg in the 1560s — precisely because the political disintegration preceding the Dutch Revolt left Habsburg monetary authority too fractured to enforce much control. William V exploited this window. The leeuwendaalder type he struck here predates the more famous Holland and Zeeland issues by nearly a decade, making Batenburg an early adopter of a denomination that would eventually dominate Baltic trade.