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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 description | Crowned municipal arms of Utrecht, the shield divided vertically with small decorative dots filling the left half of the field, flanked by rampant lion supporters on either side. The heraldic composition is rendered in relief against a plain field, with the crown surmounting the shield at center. The legend UTRECHT appears along the upper periphery in Latin characters. The overall style is characteristic of Dutch municipal coinage of the mid-seventeenth century, with boldly struck heraldic elements typical of piedfort issues. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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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.