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1 Daalder `Prinsendaalder / Helmeted Daalder` Piedfort at double weight
| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1591-1592 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Armored half-length bust of William the Silent (Prince of Orange) facing right, wearing elaborately engraved plate armor with a ruff collar and holding an upright sword in his right hand; a plumed helmet rests at his left side. The figure is rendered in the detailed Renaissance style characteristic of late sixteenth-century Dutch hammered coinage. An inner beaded circle frames the central design. The Latin legend reads VIGILATE DEO CONFIDENTES with the date 1591, divided by the bust, running clockwise around the periphery. |
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| Mintage | 1591 ⬕ - - 1592 ⬕ - - |
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Piedfort production in the Dutch Republic served administrative rather than prestige purposes — these double-weight strikes were typically prepared as presentation pieces for civic officials, foreign dignitaries, or as official seals substitutes during the early decades of the revolt against Spain. Utrecht's mint was among the more active provincial facilities in the early 1590s, operating under the perpetual financial pressure of maintaining armies in the field against Parma's forces in the southern Netherlands.
The Delmonte S#928a attribution places this among the rarest documented Utrecht piedfort varieties. HPM census figures for this type remain in single digits.