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1 Duit
| Issuer | Deventer, City of |
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| Year | 1594 |
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| Value | 1 Duit (1⁄160) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features the arms of Deventer — a displayed eagle set within a shield — rendered in relief consistent with the heraldic tradition of the Low Countries municipal coinage. The shield is surrounded by a beaded inner border, with the Latin religious legend disposed around the circumference of the coin. The inscription references Psalm 37:25, serving as a civic and spiritual motto of the issuing city. The irregular hammered flan and bold lettering are characteristic of late sixteenth-century Netherlands copper duit coinage. |
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Deventer was one of the few Overijssel cities that continued striking its own copper duit well into the period when the nascent Dutch Republic was struggling to standardize coinage across its provinces. The 1594 date places this piece squarely in the middle of the Eighty Years' War, when municipal minting remained a practical necessity — Spanish disruption of trade routes made reliable small change a local responsibility, not a federal one.
The Verender reference 157.2 distinguishes this from closely related municipal issues that are frequently conflated in older collections.