1 Duit Arms with horizontal bars, piedfort at 1.5 weight

Piedforts — struck at multiples of standard weight on thicker planchets — were produced by Dutch municipal mints almost exclusively as presentation pieces or assay confirmations, never intended for circulation. Utrecht's municipal coinage in the mid-seventeenth century operated under the perpetual tension of the States General's repeated attempts to centralize Dutch coinage standards, a process the city resisted well into the 1660s. This example, at 1.5× weight rather than the more common double, represents an unusual intermediate striking seldom documented outside the HPM census.