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1 Duit Arms with horizontal bars, piedfort at 1.5 weight

Issuer City of Utrecht (Dutch Republic)
Year 1657
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering UTRECHT
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Reverse lettering CIV. TRAIECT 1657
(Translation: City of Utrecht)
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Additional information

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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