1 Silver Ducat Dirck Bosch, piedfort

Piedforts — struck at double or greater thickness on standard-diameter blanks — were never intended for circulation. In the Dutch Republic, they functioned as presentation pieces, given by municipal and provincial authorities to diplomats, visiting dignitaries, and influential allies. This example, issued under the States of West Friesland, dates to a period when the province was still asserting administrative identity within the loose confederacy of the Republic, and such pieces carried genuine political weight as gifts.

Dirck Bosch served as mintmaster at the Hoorn mint during this period. The HPM reference places this squarely within the documented West Friesland piedfort series, though surviving examples are scarce enough that auction appearances remain relatively infrequent.