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1 Duit FRI GIA
| Issuer | Reckem, Lordship of |
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| Year | 1619 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two-line inscription FRI / GIA in the field, with the date 1619 below, all enclosed within a decorative wreath composed of stylized tulip motifs. The lettering is rendered in a bold, irregular hammered style characteristic of small lordship issues of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Reckem was a tiny lordship in the County of Flanders, and its coinage rights were exercised sporadically and at small scale — the kind of petty feudal minting that the Habsburg authorities in Brussels periodically attempted to suppress throughout the early seventeenth century. The duit was the workhorse fractional coin of the Low Countries, and local lords who retained the right to strike it could profit handsomely from seigniorage on even modest runs. De Mey's cataloguing of this specific 1619 piece as Reck#138 places it within a tightly documented but numerically scarce series.