1 Silver Ducat Late type

Utrecht's silver ducats of this period circulated far beyond the Dutch Republic's own borders — they were a trusted trade coin across the Baltic, the Levant, and deep into the Russian Empire, where Dutch specie was actively preferred over domestic issues for wholesale merchant transactions. The "late type" designation separates this from the earlier provincial issue following a die modification, a distinction that matters primarily to specialists tracking the long production run across more than five decades.

Dav EC I#1845 places it firmly within the European crown-sized trade coinage classification, a category dominated by coins that survived because they were hoarded abroad rather than spent locally.