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1 Daalder
| Issuer | City of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Value | 1 Daalder (3⁄2) |
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| Reverse description | Central field depicts a rampant lion passant guardant to the sinister, finely detailed with flowing mane and curled tail raised above its back, rendered in vigorous late Renaissance style. The lion stands upon a plain ground line within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding Latin legend, separated by cross and pellet stops, carries the civic motto of the Dutch Republic and the date 1578 interspersed with pellet stops. The broad flat field between the beaded circle and the coin's edge is well defined, consistent with hammered daalder coinage of the period. |
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| Mintage | 1578 |
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Utrecht began striking its own daalder in 1578, the same year the city formally joined the Union of Utrecht — the defensive alliance that would become the constitutional backbone of the Dutch Republic. The timing was not coincidental. Municipal coinage was as much a declaration of political alignment as a commercial necessity, and Utrecht's early issues reflect the chaotic overlap of provincial authority and nascent republican governance that defined the first decade of the Revolt against Spain.
The .750 fineness places this below the later Burgundian cross daalder standard, a deliberate compromise that kept production viable when bullion supplies were unreliable and the Spanish blockade of Antwerp was beginning to strangle traditional silver routes into the Low Countries.