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1 Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder'
| Issuer | Mint of Utrecht |
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| Year | 1641-1668 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A boldly rendered rampant lion facing left, with curling mane, raised forepaws, and a swept tail, displayed within a raised dotted inner circle. The surrounding Latin legend, separated by raised pellet stops, encircles the field and incorporates the date. The lion is rendered in the vigorous heraldic style typical of Dutch Leeuwendaalder coinage, with fine detail in the mane and musculature visible in well-struck examples. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONFIDENS · DNO · NON · MOVETVR · 1648 (Translation: Those who trust in God are immovable.) |
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The Leeuwendaalder was never intended for domestic use. Struck deliberately underweight against the standard rijksdaalder, it was designed from the outset as a trade coin — cheap to produce, widely recognized, and acceptable across the Levant, the Baltic, and throughout the Dutch East India Company's eastern trading networks. Merchants and the VOC shipped them by the caskful.
Utrecht's output under KM#32.1 spans nearly three decades of the Dutch Golden Age, during which the coin became so ubiquitous in Ottoman markets that local merchants quoted prices in leeuwendaalders as a default foreign currency.