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1 Duit Arms with dots, silver, piedfort at 2.5-3 times weight
| Issuer | City of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1657 |
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| Value | 1 Duit (1⁄160) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The city name and date are inscribed in two horizontal lines within a quatrefoil border, reading CIV / TRAIECT above the date 1657, all set against a plain field. The quatrefoil frame, with its four rounded lobes, is a decorative motif characteristic of Utrecht municipal issues of this period. The abbreviated Latin inscription CIV TRAIECT, standing for Civitas Traiectensis (City of Utrecht), is boldly struck in Roman capitals. The date 1657 appears in the lower portion of the central field, clearly legible. Small decorative elements fill the spaces between the quatrefoil lobes and the coin's circular periphery. |
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Utrecht's silver piedfort duits occupy a peculiar administrative niche — almost certainly struck as presentation or test pieces rather than for any intended circulation. The piedfort format, running at roughly two-and-a-half to three times normal striking weight, was a well-established European convention for producing showpieces destined for treasury inspection, official gifts, or die verification. Utrecht exercised independent municipal minting rights within the Dutch Republic, and its civic authorities occasionally commissioned such heavy strikes to document current coinage practice.
The 1657 date places this piece mid-Republic, well within Utrecht's active period of asserting local monetary prerogatives against provincial standardization pressure from Holland.