1 Duit

Utrecht struck its own copper duits well into the seventeenth century, a prerogative jealously guarded by Dutch cities and provinces even as the VOC and broader Dutch trade economy increasingly demanded standardized small coinage. The city issues frequently differed from provincial types in minor but catalogable details — KM#43.2 distinguishes this from the nearly identical 43.1 by die characteristics that have frustrated attribution for generations of collectors working from worn examples.