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1/8 Ducat Gold, struck to 1 gold ducat weight
| Issuer | Zeeland, Province of |
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| Year | 1773-1790 |
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| Weight | 3.533 g |
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| Obverse description | A standing armored knight depicted in full relief facing right, his right hand raising a sword upright to his shoulder and his left hand grasping a ribbon or scroll. At his feet rests a crowned shield bearing the arms of Zeeland. The surrounding field carries the Latin legend along the inner border, and the design reflects the classic Dutch provincial warrior type standard to the period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Zeeland's fractional ducat series occupies a peculiar corner of Dutch provincial coinage — the denomination reads as one-eighth, but the piece was struck to full ducat weight, a deliberate contradiction driven by the province's need to participate in international bullion trade while maintaining nominal compliance with the States General's coinage resolutions. The Dutch Republic never fully harmonized its provincial mints, and Zeeland exploited that gap routinely.
The Middelburg mint produced this type across a seventeen-year window that ended as the Republic itself was entering terminal political crisis, with the Patriot movement fracturing the regency class that had authorized such issues.