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1/2 Ducaton `1/2 Zilveren Rijder` Gold
| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1774-1794 |
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| Value | 1/2 Ducaton |
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| Obverse description | A fully armored knight ('Rijder') mounted on a charging horse advancing to the right, brandishing a raised sword in his right hand. The arms of Utrecht appear beneath the horse in the lower field. The surrounding legend in Latin is rendered in raised relief, separated by decorative stops, and runs along the coin's periphery within a beaded border. The overall composition follows the classic Dutch provincial horseman type, executed in high relief with fine milled technique. |
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| 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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The Zilveren Rijder — "Silver Rider" — was so named for its equestrian design, yet this variant was struck in gold, a production anomaly that recurs across several Dutch provincial mints in the late eighteenth century as bullion presentation pieces and trade instruments rather than conventional circulation coinage. Utrecht's output under this type spans two decades, bridging the final years of the Dutch Republic before French Revolutionary forces dissolved provincial autonomy entirely in 1795.
The Delmonte G#974 attribution places this firmly in the gold ducat-weight tradition maintained by Utrecht even as the Republic's federated monetary system grew increasingly incoherent in its final decade.