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1 Duit
| Issuer | Utrecht, City of |
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| Year | 1739-1793 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the heraldic arms of the City of Utrecht: a shield divided per bend sinister, charged with a diagonal band of fine parallel lines representing the traditional Utrecht device, surmounted by an elaborate mural or civic crown with cross-tipped finials and orb. Two rampant lions serve as supporters, each facing inward and grasping the sides of the shield with their forelegs. Below the escutcheon, a horizontal line separates the composition from a decorative scrollwork ornament at the base of the field. |
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Utrecht struck duits continuously across this long span to meet the chronic small-change shortage that plagued the Dutch Republic's internal commerce, particularly in markets and toll transactions where VOC coinage was too valuable to break. The city's municipal issues ran parallel to provincial duits and were legally interchangeable within the Republic, though Utrecht's civic authority over its own copper coinage was effectively a holdover from medieval urban autonomy — one that survived well past the point where it made administrative sense.
Production ended with the collapse of the Republic in 1795, not in 1793 as the span implies for some die marriages.