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1 Gulden Gold, struck to 4 ducat weight
| Issuer | States of Holland |
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| Year | 1734-1749 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of the Maid of Holland (Hollandia) standing facing, draped in classical robes, leaning with her left arm upon a Bible or law book resting atop a fluted column, and holding an upright spear or lance in her right hand topped by a liberty cap. The date appears within the peripheral Latin legend that encircles the design, punctuated by dot stops. The composition conveys the allegorical ideals of liberty and civic virtue central to the Dutch Republic. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Holland's States-General authorized this heavy gold gulden as a deliberate response to trade demand rather than domestic monetary need — the four-ducat weight made it directly convertible and competitive in the Baltic and Levantine markets where Dutch merchants had long dominated. The piece circulated more as a trade instrument than a coin in any conventional sense, moving through counting houses rather than pockets.
Delmonte's classification separates it cleanly from the standard gulden series. The 1734 opening date coincides with a period of intensifying competition from Austrian and Russian trade coinages pressing into the same eastern markets.