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1/2 Silver Ducat
| Issuer | Province of Holland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1659 |
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| Value | 1/2 Silver Ducat (1/2 Rijksdaalder) (6⁄5) |
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| Obverse description | A armored standing figure of a Dutch knight occupies the central field, depicted facing right and holding a bundle of arrows in the left hand and a sword or scepter in the right, emblematic of the armed sovereignty of the United Provinces. At the knight's feet rests a heraldic shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland. The date 1659 is divided to either side of the central figure in the field. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the Latin legend encircling the periphery. The flan is characteristically irregular and slightly clipped, as typical of hammered Dutch silver coinage of the mid-seventeenth century. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO · NO · ARG · PRO · CONFŒ · BELG : C : HOL 1659 (Translation: New silver coinage of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, County of Holland) |
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| Reverse lettering | · CONCORDIA · RES · PARVÆ · CRESCVNT · (Translation: With unity, small things grow) |
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