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1 Ducaton 'Silver Rider' Date in cartouche, fourfold arms
| Issuer | Utrecht, Province of |
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| Year | 1679-1692 |
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| Value | 1 Ducaton (3) |
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| Obverse description | A fully armored knight ('Silver Rider') mounted on a charging horse advancing to the right, the rider raising a drawn sword aloft with his right hand. Beneath the horse appears a crowned quartered shield bearing the arms of the Province of Utrecht. The encircling Latin legend is interrupted by the mint mark, rendered as a small depiction of the arms of the city of Utrecht, positioned at the end of the inscription. The overall composition is rendered in high relief in the Dutch baroque style typical of late seventeenth-century United Provinces coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | * CONCORDIA RES PARVÆ CRESCUNT 1680 (Translation: With harmony small things grow.) |
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The ducaton struck by Utrecht occupied an awkward political position within the Dutch Republic: each province maintained its own mint and jealously guarded that right, yet the States-General repeatedly pushed for monetary uniformity throughout the late seventeenth century. Utrecht's issues from this period reflect deliberate provincial resistance to centralization, with the province continuing independent production well after neighboring mints had begun consolidating output. The "Silver Rider" denomination itself was a workhorse of Dutch colonial trade, shipped in quantity to the East Indies by the VOC as a trusted hard-currency medium where local merchants demanded specie over paper instruments.
Dies for Utrecht ducatons of this run are known to show variation in the cartouche rendering around the date — a useful diagnostic when attributing examples to tighter sub-periods within the 1679–1692 window.