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1 Duit
| Issuer | Nijmegen, City of |
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| Year | 1618-1620 |
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| In circulation to | 1 October 1822 |
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| Obverse description | The city name NOVIOMAGUM (Latin for Nijmegen) rendered in three lines as NOV / IMA / GVM in bold raised capital letters within the field. The inscription is enclosed by a wreath of tulips tied at the base, with decorative pellets flanking the wreath on either side. The overall design is characteristic of early seventeenth-century Dutch municipal coinage, struck by hand on an irregular copper flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | BEATA · GNS · CVI9 · DNS · SPS · EI9 |
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Nijmegen exercised its municipal minting rights with particular stubbornness during the early seventeenth century, producing copper small change at a time when the newly independent Dutch provinces were still hammering out monetary agreements under the Union of Utrecht. The city's autonomous coinage was a source of friction with the States General, which repeatedly attempted to standardize duit production across the provinces.
This issue falls within the three-year span before Nijmegen's municipal mint effectively ceased independent copper production under increasing federal pressure.