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1 Ducat
| Issuer | West Friesland, region of |
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| Year | 1607-1675 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat |
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| Obverse lettering | CONCORDIA RES PAR VAE CRES WEST |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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West Friesland ducats of this type were struck under the authority of the States of Holland and West Friesland, one of the seven sovereign provinces of the Dutch Republic, during a period when the Netherlands was simultaneously fighting the Eighty Years' War against Spain and funding the most aggressive commercial expansion in European history. The ducat served as a hard-currency instrument for VOC and WIC trade settlements, circulating far beyond Dutch borders into Baltic grain markets, Levantine ports, and the nascent Atlantic trading networks.
The remarkably long uninterrupted type-span — nearly seven decades without design revision — reflects deliberate monetary conservatism. Foreign merchants trusted the coin precisely because it didn't change.