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1/2 3 Gulden
| Issuer | Friesland, Province of |
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| Year | 1696 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse lettering | MO : ARG : ORD : FAED : BELG : FRI : 1/2 3 GL (Translation: Silver coinage of the Province of Friesland of the United Provinces of the Netherlands) |
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| Reverse lettering | HAC NITIMVR HANC TVEMVR (Translation: On her we lean, her we protect) |
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Friesland's fractional rider coinage of the late seventeenth century emerged from a province perpetually at odds with the centralized monetary ambitions of the Dutch Republic. The States of Friesland jealously guarded their minting rights long after neighboring provinces had effectively ceded control to Holland, and issues like this one reflect that stubborn provincial autonomy playing out in silver.
The ½ 3 Gulden denomination — effectively 30 stuivers — occupied an awkward commercial niche, and surviving examples rarely show heavy wear, suggesting limited day-to-day utility relative to smaller divisional coinage.