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1 Duit
| Issuer | Utrecht, City of |
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| Year | 1657 |
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| Value | 1 Duit (1⁄160) |
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| Reverse description | The city name UTRECHT divided across two lines — 'U' above and 'TRECHT' below — together with the date 1657, all contained within a quatrefoil frame composed of four lobed arches. Small lozenge-shaped ornaments appear at each cardinal point outside the quatrefoil, and a beaded border encircles the entire design. The lettering is bold and deeply struck, consistent with the municipal copper coinage standard of seventeenth-century Utrecht. |
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| Mintage | 1657 |
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Utrecht struck its own duit coinage independently of the provincial authority, a quirk of the city's retained municipal minting privileges that persisted well into the seventeenth century. By 1657, the duit was the workhorse of small commerce in the Dutch Republic, used heavily in retail transactions and — critically — bulk-shipped to VOC territories in Asia, where the company used them as low-denomination currency across its trading posts. Utrecht city issues are distinguishable from their provincial counterparts by die, and the KM#43.1 designation separates this municipal type from the broader Utrecht provincial series.