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1/4 Ducat Gold, struck to 2.5 ducat weight
| Issuer | Province of Zeeland |
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| Year | 1773-1787 |
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| Value | 1/4 Ducat (¾) |
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| Obverse description | A standing armored knight occupies the center of the field, facing left in three-quarter view, wearing a plumed helmet, full plate armor, and a gorget. The knight holds an upright sword in his right hand and rests his left hand upon the crowned shield of Zeeland, displaying a rampant lion over barry wavy, emblematic of the province's maritime character. The figure stands on a small ground line, rendered in fine relief with careful attention to the articulation of armor plates. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading continuously around the coin's circumference. |
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| Obverse lettering | MON : NOV : AUR : PRO : CONFŒD : BELG : COM : ZEL · ♜ (Translation: New gold coin of the Province of Zeeland of the United Netherlands) |
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Zeeland's decision to strike a coin denominated as a quarter-ducat but physically weighing two-and-a-half ducats is not bureaucratic confusion — it reflects the Dutch Republic's deeply fragmented monetary system, in which provincial mints operated under the Union of Utrecht's general framework but retained enough autonomy to produce multiples and denominations that answered local commercial demand rather than any central logic. Zeeland's mint at Middelburg was among the smaller provincial operations, and issues like this one were produced in limited quantities across the fourteen-year span of the type.
The Delmonte and Verkade references both treat this as a distinct variety from the standard quarter-ducat, precisely because the weight differential is too significant to attribute to planchet variation.