1 Duit

West Friesland maintained its own municipal coinage within the Dutch Republic's decentralized mint structure, and the duit was the workhorse of that system — the smallest denomination in daily use, spent on bread, ferry crossings, and market tolls. By the 1740s, the proliferation of provincial duit issues had become a persistent irritant to the States General, which repeatedly attempted to rationalize coinage across the seven provinces without success. Counterfeiting of copper duits was rampant throughout the mid-eighteenth century, particularly from clandestine operations in the Southern Netherlands.