1 Ducaton 'Silver Rider'

The ducaton known as the "Silver Rider" was among the most widely circulated Dutch coins in the Atlantic world during the eighteenth century — not primarily within the Dutch Republic itself, but across its colonial trade networks and, critically, in British North America. Colonial merchants and assemblies trusted the coin's consistently high silver fineness at a time when Spanish milled dollars and other foreign species were all competing for acceptance. Several American colonies officially rated it in their currency proclamations.

West Friesland was one of multiple provincial mints authorized to strike the type, each producing coins that are technically identical in specification but distinguishable by mint mark to specialists.