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1 Golden Rider
| Issuer | Utrecht, Province of |
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| Year | 1606-1627 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | A fully armored knight on a prancing horse advancing to the right, brandishing a raised sword in his right hand; below the horse, the crowned arms of Utrecht appear within the field. The entire design is contained within a beaded inner circle. The composition is rendered in the dynamic late-Renaissance style characteristic of Dutch provincial hammered gold coinage of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1606 ⬕ - - 1607 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 1608 ⬕ - - 1614 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 1615 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 10,480 1616 ⬕ - - 1617 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 1618 ⬕ - - 1619 ⬕ - - 1620 ⬕ - overdate variety exists - 1621 ⬕ - - 1622 ⬕ - - 1623 ⬕ - - 1624 ⬕ - - 1625 ⬕ - - 1627 ⬕ - - |
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Utrecht was among the seven rebel provinces that formally abjured Philip II in 1581, and its gold coinage of the early seventeenth century was issued under the monetary ordinances of the newly sovereign Dutch Republic — a federation that had no single mint authority and permitted each province to strike its own gold. The result was a proliferation of near-identical rider types across multiple provincial mints, which created persistent problems with counterfeiting and weight manipulation that the States-General repeatedly failed to resolve.
Utrecht's mint was housed in the Oudmunster chapter buildings. The Delmonte reference remains the standard attribution tool for distinguishing provincial emissions of this type, as die studies continue to refine the chronology within the 1606–1627 window.