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1/2 Netherlands rijksdaalder
| Issuer | Province of Gelderland |
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| Year | 1606-1626 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Crowned shield of the Dutch Republic bearing the rampant lion of the Netherlands, holding a sword and bundle of arrows, set within a beaded inner border. The date is divided on either side of the shield, with the partial year visible flanking the arms. The circumferential Latin motto legend runs around the entire coin within the beaded border, characteristic of the half rijksdaalder coinage of the Gelderland province. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONCORDIA·RES·PARVAE·CRESCVNT· (Translation: Small things grow through unity) |
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Gelderland's rijksdaalder series emerged from a practical crisis: the Dutch Republic's chronic shortage of standardized silver coinage during the early decades of the Eighty Years' War forced individual provinces to strike their own issues, often with slight divergences in weight and fineness that created persistent headaches for merchants and money-changers. The provincial States jealously guarded this minting privilege even as the Union of Utrecht nominally coordinated currency across the seven provinces.
Delmonte's classification as S#954 places this among the secondary provincial issues — struck at the Harderwijk or Nijmegen mint, both of which operated under Gelderland's authority during this span.