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1 Silver Ducat Late type, date reverse, flower
| Issuer | West Friesland, region of |
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| Year | 1695-1708 |
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| Value | Silver Ducat (Rijksdaalder) |
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| Reverse description | The crowned arms of the Dutch Generality — a rampant lion holding a sword and a sheaf of arrows within a cartouche-shaped shield — occupy the center of the field, surmounted by an elaborate imperial crown with floral finials. The date 1698 is divided by the shield, with '16' to the left and '98' to the right, a characteristic placement of the late type. The surrounding peripheral legend bears the Generality motto in Latin, separated by stops, running continuously around the coin. The overall die work is consistent with late 17th-century Dutch hammered coinage style. |
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| Mintage | 1695 - - 143,767 1696 - - 1696 - Overstrike 1696/5 - 1698 - - 1699 - - 1707 - - 204,189 1708 - - 1708 - Overstrike 1708/7 - |
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West Friesland struck its own ducats under the authority of the States of Holland and West Friesland, one of the seven sovereign provinces of the Dutch Republic, exercising a minting prerogative that persisted well past the point when monetary consolidation would have made practical sense. The "late type" designation distinguishes these issues from earlier West Frisian ducats by the repositioning of the date to the reverse — a small but cataloguers have long used to sequence the die chronology of a remarkably long-running provincial type.
Delmonte S#971 places this among the scarcer provincial ducat varieties; West Friesland's output was never large relative to Holland proper.