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1 Duit
| Issuer | Deventer, City of |
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| Year | 1602 |
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| In circulation to | 1 October 1822 |
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| Obverse description | Crowned municipal coat of arms of Deventer, displaying a double-headed eagle on a shield, centrally positioned within the field. The shield is flanked by decorative foliate or tulip-branch elements forming a wreath border. The city name DA VEN TRIA appears in three lines above the shield, with the date 1602 divided at the base of the shield. The overall design reflects the civic heraldic tradition of the Dutch city-states of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse description | A cross with forked or patonce tips occupies the central field, surmounted by a crown. The reverse legend NON. VIDI × IVSTVM × DEREL × is inscribed around the periphery in Latin, a citation from Psalm 37:25 referencing the abandonment of the just. The lettering is arranged in a circular legend typical of hammered civic coinage of the period, with pellet or cross stops separating the words. |
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Deventer was one of several Overijssel cities that retained the right to strike small copper coinage well into the early Dutch Republic period, a privilege jealously guarded against centralizing pressure from the States General. The duit denomination existed largely to handle the lowest tier of daily commerce — market transactions, small tolls, petty retail — that silver fractionals couldn't efficiently serve. By 1602 the city's mint output was already being scrutinized by the Generaliteit, and municipal copper issues would face increasing restriction over the following decades. Ver#157.3 distinguishes this from closely related die varieties sharing the same nominal type.