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1 Goldgulden - Matthias VNG BOH R
| Issuer | Deventer, City of |
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| Year | 1612-1619 |
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| Composition | Gold (.986) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1612-1619) |
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Deventer's gold gulden issues of this period derive their authorization from the city's position within the Habsburg Netherlands, where municipal minting rights were jealously maintained even as the Dutch Republic consolidated political authority elsewhere. The city sat on the IJssel trade route, and gold coinage circulating through that corridor needed local credibility. These pieces used the imperial portrait of Matthias — Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 — not out of political loyalty alone, but because Rhine gulden-weight gold with a recognized imperial type moved more freely through the German and Low Countries markets.
The seven-year production window ended when Deventer's minting privileges were curtailed under pressure from the States General.