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| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1681-1682 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden |
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| Obverse lettering | MO · NO · ARGENT · ORDIN · TRAI 1682 (Translation: New silver coinage of the state of Utrecht) |
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| Mintage | 1681 - - 1682 - - |
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Utrecht struck this pattern during a period when the Dutch Republic's decentralized monetary system was generating serious friction. Each province retained the right to mint its own coinage, and the resulting proliferation of substandard and irregular pieces prompted repeated attempts by the States-General to impose uniformity — attempts Utrecht and others routinely resisted. This piece, a gold pattern at five-ducat weight, sits outside normal circulation issues and almost certainly served as a presentation or trial striking rather than a proposed circulating denomination.
The Delmonte attribution places it firmly within the Utrecht gold pattern series documented by that reference — a thin corpus of pieces that rarely surface.