1 Ducaton 'Silver Rider'

West Friesland's ducatons were struck under the looser fiscal oversight of the individual Dutch provincial mints, and the States of West Friesland exploited this repeatedly — producing ducatons well into the 1790s even as the Republic's political structure was collapsing around them. Large quantities of Silver Riders from multiple Dutch provinces were exported throughout the eighteenth century to the Levant trade and the East Indies, where Dutch silver enjoyed a trusted reputation that outlasted the VOC itself.

The Delmonte reference remains the authoritative guide for distinguishing die marriages within this type; Ver#62.1 narrows the attribution to West Friesland specifically, separating it from the superficially similar Utrecht and Gelderland issues that circulated alongside it.