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1 Stuiver
| Issuer | West Friesland, region of |
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| Year | 1676-1677 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | · ❀ · WEST FRISIA I ·STUYVER I676 (Translation: West Friesland 1 Stuiver) |
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| Reverse lettering | B P |
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West Friesland operated as one of the seven sovereign provinces of the Dutch Republic, maintaining its own mint at Enkhuizen and later Hoorn with a degree of independence that occasionally produced issues technically non-compliant with the Union of Utrecht's monetary regulations. The stuiver denominations from this period were frequently subject to complaints from other provinces about substandard fineness — a recurring administrative headache for the Munt-generaal throughout the 1670s.
The Franco-Dutch War, then at its height, drove exceptional demand for small silver coinage to pay troops and supply chains. Hoorn's output for 1676–1677 reflects that pressure.