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1 Ducaton `Silver Rider` Gold pattern at 18 ducats weight
| Issuer | Province of Holland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1672 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A fully armored knight on a charging horse advancing to the right dominates the obverse, the rider raising a drawn sword in his right hand in a commanding posture. Beneath the horse, the crowned arms of Holland appear in the lower field, serving as a heraldic groundline. The design is rendered in high relief with fine detail typical of Dutch milled coinage of the period. The circumferential legend in Latin encircles the entire composition, separated by decorative stops. The overall style is consistent with the 'Silver Rider' (Rijderschelling) type adapted here as a gold pattern striking. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO : NO : ARG : CONFΠ: BELG : PRO : HOLLAND. (Translation: New silver coin of the Holland Province of the United Provinces of the Netherlands) |
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1672 is the Rampjaar — the Disaster Year — when France, England, Münster, and Cologne simultaneously invaded the Dutch Republic, overrunning most of Holland within weeks. That the Province of Holland was striking gold patterns at 18-ducat weight while its territory was collapsing around it speaks to the stubborn institutional continuity of Dutch provincial minting, not to any misplaced optimism.
Pattern issues of this type were almost certainly produced for presentation purposes — gifts to foreign dignitaries or samples submitted for official approval — rather than for any intended circulation. The Delmonte reference places this among the rarest of Dutch gold pattern coinage, with surviving examples numbering in the single digits.