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1/2 Silver Ducat `1/2 Rijksdaalder` early type
| Issuer | Province of Gelderland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1661-1667 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Armored knight standing in full figure to the right, bearing an unsheathed sword raised over the right shoulder, with the date divided to either side of the figure. At the knight's feet rests a crowned shield bearing the lion rampant arms of Gelderland. The design is executed in the bold, high-relief style characteristic of Dutch hammered silver coinage of the mid-seventeenth century. The encircling Latin legend is separated from the central device by a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO : NO : ARG : PRO : CONFΠ: BELG : D : GEL : C : Z . 1661 (Translation: New silver coinage of the United Provinces of Netherlands, Duchy of Gelderland, County of Zutphen) |
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Gelderland was among the more fractious of the seven United Provinces, its nobility resistant to centralized authority well into the seventeenth century. The province maintained its own mint at Harderwijk throughout this period, operating with considerable independence from the States-General's periodic attempts to standardize coinage across the Republic. The "early type" distinction here matters: a resolution of 1671 forced design revisions across multiple provincial silver denominations, making pre-revision survivors from the 1661–1667 window a distinct collecting category rather than a casual chronological grouping.