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Peter d'Or - Dirk van Bronckhorst
| Issuer | Batenburg, Barony of |
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| Year | 1432-1456 |
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| Composition | Gold |
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| Obverse description | Facing half-length figure of Saint Peter, nimbed and draped, set within a Gothic trefoil arch with foliate ornaments, his right hand raised in benediction and his left holding the papal keys. Beneath the figure, a large heraldic shield bearing the quartered arms of the Lords of Bronckhorst, rendered in fine relief. The entire composition is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the uncial legend disposed around the outer field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Dirk van Bronckhorst acquired Batenburg through inheritance in 1418 and wasted little time asserting the monetary privileges that came with it. The gold peter struck under his authority borrows its type from the Burgundian coinage then dominating the Low Countries — a deliberate mimicry that helped these pieces circulate beyond the barony's modest territorial reach. Small lordships in the Guelders-Brabant borderlands routinely produced imitative gold as a revenue mechanism, with the issuing authority's legitimacy mattering far less to merchants than the coin's weight and fineness.
Delmonte records only a handful of attributed survivors.