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1/2 Ducaton `1/2 Zilveren Rijder` Flowered edge
| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1761-1794 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MO : NO : ARG : CON FŒ : BELG : PRO : TRAI · (Translation: New silver coinage of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Province Utrecht) |
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Utrecht struck the Zilveren Rijder — "silver rider" — series across multiple denominations throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but provincial coinage in the Dutch Republic was never truly standardized. Each of the seven sovereign provinces retained the right to mint independently, which produced persistent headaches for merchants trying to calculate exchange across provincial borders. The flowered edge variety of this half ducaton distinguishes it from the plain-edge issues and helps date production to the later decades of the series.
By the 1780s, the Republic's finances were badly strained by the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, and coin production across Utrecht's mint reflected the fiscal pressure. The province ceased independent minting entirely when French Revolutionary forces reorganized the Netherlands into the Batavian Republic in 1795.