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1 Silver Ducat BELG CIV DAVENT
| Issuer | City of Deventer |
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| Year | 1698 |
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| Value | Silver Ducat (Rijksdaalder) |
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| Reverse description | A crowned heraldic shield displaying the arms of the Seven United Provinces occupies the center of the reverse field, with each quarter bearing the emblems of the respective provinces. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown and flanked by decorative flourishes. A privy mark appears at the conclusion of the encircling legend. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, consistent with the hammered coinage style of the Dutch Republic. |
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| Mint | Deventer Mint |
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Deventer was one of the few Dutch cities that retained the right to strike silver ducats well into the late seventeenth century, a privilege increasingly at odds with the centralizing ambitions of the States General. By 1698 the city's mint output was modest and administratively contested — the Holland mint lobby had spent decades arguing that municipal issues undermined monetary uniformity across the Republic. That political pressure would eventually succeed; Deventer's independent minting effectively wound down in the early eighteenth century, making the later-dated civic issues disproportionately scarce relative to earlier runs.
The Delmonte reference for this type places it among the final documented emissions from the Deventer facility.