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1 Ducaton West Friesland, gold
| Issuer | Province of West Friesland (Dutch Republic) for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) |
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| Year | 1728 |
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| Value | 1 Ducaton (3) |
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| Obverse lettering | MON FOED BELG PRO WESTF IN USUM SOCIET IND ORIENT |
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| Edge | Lettered: HANC TVEMVR HAC NITIMVR |
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The ducaton series struck for VOC use represents one of the more peculiar monetary arrangements of the Dutch Republic: individual provinces, rather than the central States-General, contracted with their own mints to produce coinage explicitly for Company circulation in Asia. West Friesland's mint at Hoorn was among the more active participants. By 1728 the VOC was deep into the administrative rot that would eventually collapse it — the Company's Asian ledgers were being systematically falsified, and specie shipments eastward were accelerating to paper over the fraud.
The Delmonte G#848 attribution places this among the gold emissions distinguished from the far more common silver ducatons of identical type.