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1 Ducat - Louis Napoleon Holland
| Issuer | Kingdom of Holland |
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| Year | 1806 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MO:ORD / PROVIN: / FOEDER: / BELG. AD / LEG.IMP. |
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The Kingdom of Holland existed for just four years before Napoleon forcibly annexed it into the French Empire in 1810, having grown impatient with his brother Louis's reluctance to enforce the Continental System against British trade. Louis Napoleon proved a genuinely popular ruler by Dutch standards — too popular, in Napoleon's estimation. This 1806 ducat was struck in the opening year of Louis's reign, when the kingdom was newly constituted and its coinage still being organized around Dutch monetary traditions rather than French imperial preferences.
The .986 fine standard follows the longstanding Dutch ducat specification, a deliberate continuity with the Republic's trade coinage.