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1/2 Gold Rider / 7 Gulden
| Issuer | Utrecht, Province of |
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| Year | 1749-1763 |
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| Value | 1/2 Gold Rider |
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| Obverse lettering | MO : AUR : PRO : CONFŒD : BELG : TRAIECT . ⬕ (Translation: Gold coin of the province of Utrecht of the United Provinces of the Netherlands) |
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| Mintage | 1749 ⬕ - - 1750 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 1751 ⬕ - - 1760 ⬕ - - 347,000 1761 ⬕ - - 211,000 1762 ⬕ - - 1763 ⬕ - - |
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Utrecht struck this fractional gold rider during a period when the Dutch Republic's federal coinage system was perpetually undermined by individual provinces minting to their own schedules and commercial needs. The rider series had been a Dutch staple since the seventeenth century, its longevity driven by merchant familiarity and acceptance across European trading networks — particularly in the Baltic grain trade and Levant commerce, where Dutch gold maintained a reputation that outlasted Dutch political dominance.
The Delmonte attribution for this type is notably precise for provincial Dutch gold, which frequently suffers from overlapping die usage and undifferentiated date runs between provinces.