1 Ducaton

Zeeland's ducatons were struck in direct competition with those of Holland and other provinces, each mint jealously guarding its share of a lucrative silver trade coin market fed by Spanish American bullion flowing through Antwerp and later Amsterdam. The province maintained its own mint at Middelburg, which operated with considerable autonomy throughout the seventeenth century despite persistent efforts by the States-General to rationalize coinage across the Republic.

The Davenport EC II reference places this squarely among the rider ducatons that circulated widely in the Levant trade and Baltic commerce, where Dutch silver commanded a reliable premium over locally issued coin.