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1 Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder' Holland arms, BEL DAVENTR
| Issuer | City of Deventer |
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| Year | 1684-1691 |
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| Composition | Silver (.750) |
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| Reverse description | A rampant lion passant to the left occupies the central field, contained within a beaded inner circle. The date is divided at the top of the inner circle by the privy mark of a sitting dog. The surrounding Latin legend, drawn from Psalm 125, encircles the entire design and reflects the Calvinist piety characteristic of Dutch civic coinage of this period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Deventer held the unusual right to strike leeuwendaalders under a privilege granted by the States General, despite being a city rather than a sovereign province. The "BEL DAVENTR" legend reflects this civic issuing authority — a deliberate distinction from provincial emissions. These pieces circulated extensively in the Levant and Baltic trades, where the leeuwendaalder was trusted currency regardless of who had struck it, provincial or municipal.
The Holland arms on a Deventer issue is the telling detail: the city used the more commercially recognized Holland type to ensure acceptance abroad rather than asserting local heraldry.