Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Duit
| Issuer | Nijmegen, City of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1604 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | City name of Nijmegen rendered in three lines as NOV / IMA / GVM in bold raised letters at center of the field, enclosed within a wreath of tulip branches tied at the base with a small floral ornament. The wreath is composed of symmetrical leafy sprays with tulip blooms at the terminals, characteristic of early Dutch municipal coinage. The overall design is simple and heraldic in character, with no additional legend or border inscription. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Nijmegen held the right to strike its own copper small change as one of the principal cities of Gelderland, a privilege that persisted well into the seventeenth century despite repeated efforts by the States General to rationalize coinage across the nascent Dutch Republic. The duit was the workhorse of everyday retail transactions — eight to the stuiver — and municipal issues like this one circulated alongside provincial and VOC-struck pieces with little friction.
The 1604 date places this piece early in the Twelve Years' Truce negotiations, when Nijmegen remained a strategically sensitive border city only recently secured from Spanish control following the Union of Utrecht.