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1 Duit Gold
| Issuer | Utrecht, City of |
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| Year | 1739-1760 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#91c, Delmonte G#993 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1739 - - 1741 - - 1760 - - |
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Utrecht struck gold duits as a prestige equivalent of the standard copper circulation piece — not for domestic spending, but almost certainly as presentation or gift coinage. The municipal authorities occasionally commissioned gold strikings of workaday denominations for ceremonial distribution, a practice documented across several Dutch city-states in the eighteenth century.
Delmonte's classification of this piece under his gold Netherlands series places it firmly outside normal monetary use. At 7 grams, it outweighs the copper original by a factor that made everyday transaction impossible by design.