1 Duit Gold

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.