1/4 Daalder/8 stuivers '1/4 Statendaalder'

Utrecht struck this denomination in 1577 under the authority of the newly formed Union of Utrecht's predecessor arrangements — a moment when the rebellious provinces were improvising monetary infrastructure as fast as they were improvising military resistance against Spanish Habsburg forces. The fractional daalder denominations were a practical response to the chaos of parallel currency systems circulating across the Netherlands, where Spanish, Burgundian, and provincial coinages competed with debased imitations at every market.

The Hoc reference places this among a tightly documented series, but surviving examples are infrequently encountered, reflecting both limited original production and the attrition of nearly four and a half centuries of Dutch commercial circulation.