1 Duit

Zwolle's municipal duit issues of the 1630s were struck against a backdrop of the Eighty Years' War, during which Dutch city authorities exercised considerable autonomy in supplying small copper coinage to meet local demand. The Spanish Habsburgs had long since lost practical control over Overijssel's monetary affairs, and municipal issues like this one filled the chronic shortage of petty coinage that plagued everyday commerce throughout the northern provinces.

The Verachter reference 178.5 indicates a specific die variety within a series that saw multiple emissions across the three-year span — distinctions that matter considerably when attributing examples to their precise issuing phase.