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1 Gulden
| Issuer | Deventer, City of |
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| Year | 1698 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the rampant lion of the Netherlands, surmounted by an ornate crown with foliate decoration. The crowned arms divide the denomination numeral '1' to the left and the letter 'G' (for Gulden) to the right within the field. A continuous Latin legend encircles the design in the outer border, reading clockwise from the upper left. |
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| Reverse description | A standing female allegorical figure, personifying Liberty or the Dutch Maiden (Nederlandse Maagd), depicted in classical robes and leaning with her right arm upon a column surmounted by a Bible. In her left hand she holds an upright spear topped with a Phrygian liberty cap. The date 1698 is divided by the figure in the field. A Latin legend encircles the design along the outer border, referencing the motto of the city of Deventer. |
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Deventer struck its own gulden coinage under rights derived from its status as an Imperial city within the broader Dutch monetary framework — a privilege increasingly contested by the States of Overijssel, who sought to consolidate minting authority within the province. By 1698, the city's independent coinage was nearing its end. The Müntzakkoord agreements of the late seventeenth century progressively curtailed municipal minting across the northern Netherlands, and Deventer would lose practical coinage rights within a generation.
The Delmonte suffix designation places this among the later die marriages of the type, distinguished in the Verachter census by minor legend variations.