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1 Ducat Late type, square brass
| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1777 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (6) |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised circular border set upon a square flan, a fully armored knight stands facing right, his figure dividing the date 1777; he raises a sword in his right hand and clasps a bundle of seven arrows — symbolizing the United Provinces — in his left. A flowing scarf or sash drapes across the knight's armor, rendered in the bold, somewhat archaic style characteristic of Utrecht provincial coinage. The circumscribed Latin legend reads CONCORDIA RES PAR : CRES : TRA, invoking the provincial motto, and concludes with the Utrecht mintmark. The square corners of the flan extend beyond the circular design, a distinctive feature of this late-type brass ducat series. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONCORDIA RES PAR : CRES : TRA · ⬕ 1777 (Translation: With harmony small things grow Utrecht) |
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Utrecht's square brass ducats occupy a peculiar niche in Dutch Republican coinage — produced as trade and accounting pieces rather than standard circulation currency, they circulated primarily within the provincial treasury system and among merchants who needed fractional gold equivalents for bookkeeping. The brass composition marks this as a later utilitarian issue, distinct from the gold ducats Utrecht had struck for export trade since the early seventeenth century.
HPM cataloging places this among the rarer provincial variants. Die documentation for the late-type square issues is sparse, and surviving examples in this composition show considerable attribution difficulty.