1 Duit

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.