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1 Rijksdaalder `Nederlandse Rijksdaalder` klippe
| Issuer | Province of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1656 |
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| Technique | Hammered, Klippe |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The klippe format — a square or rectangular planchet struck from standard dies — was almost never used for circulation coinage in the Dutch Republic. These were presentation pieces, struck to order for dignitaries, foreign ambassadors, or as gifts from the provincial estates. Utrecht produced klippes sporadically across the seventeenth century, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon; they were kept, not spent.
KM#A41 is catalogued as a separate type from the round rijksdaalder of the same year precisely because the square planchet changes the strike geometry entirely — corner weakness is the rule, not the exception.