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1 Duit Arms with horizontal bars, piedfort at 1.5 weight

Issuer City of Utrecht (Dutch Republic)
Year 1657
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Obverse description Central field dominated by the arms of Utrecht: a quartered shield bearing horizontal bars (representing the bishopric of Utrecht), surmounted by a civic crown with fleur-de-lis finial. The shield is supported on either side by rampant lions serving as heraldic supporters, their bodies facing inward toward the escutcheon. A beaded or rope border frames the inner field. The legend UTRECHT appears in Latin characters along the lower portion of the coin beneath the shield.
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Obverse lettering UTRECHT
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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.

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