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1 Rijksdaalder `Helmeted Rijksdaalder / Prinsendaalder` Piedfort at double weight
| Issuer | region of West Friesland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1592 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MONE × NO × ARG × DOMI × WESTFRISIÆ ❀ (Translation: New silver coinage of the Lordship of West Friesland) |
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Piedfort production in the Dutch Republic served a specific administrative function: these double-weight strikes were presented as official gifts and diplomatic tokens, not struck for circulation. West Friesland was one of seven sovereign provinces, each operating its own mint with jealously guarded autonomy — a structural reality that produced considerable variation in provincial coinage even when types were nominally standardized by the States-General.
The Rijksdaalder type was formalized by the union's currency ordinance of 1583. A piedfort from just nine years later, at a moment when the Republic was still fighting for its existence against Spain, carries the weight of that precarious sovereignty in a quite literal sense.