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10 Stuivers
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1751 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the rampant lion of Gelderland, surmounted by an ornate royal crown, with the denomination '10 ST' flanking the shield in the field. The circular legend encircles the design, reading from upper right through the sides to upper left, with the date 1751 appearing at the top of the coin above the crown. The shield and crown are rendered in fine relief with detailed engraving characteristic of Dutch provincial milled coinage of the mid-18th century. |
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| Reverse lettering | HANC TVEMVR HAC NITIMVR (Translation: On her we lean; her we protect) |
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Gelderland's provincial coinage in the mid-eighteenth century occupied an awkward political space — the province was nominally sovereign within the Dutch Republic yet subject to constant pressure from the States-General over monetary standardization. The 1751 date places this piece squarely in the decade before the Republic's financial system began its terminal decline under the weight of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War's debts.
The Delmonte reference classifies this as a scarce provincial type, with surviving examples concentrated in Dutch institutional collections rather than the open market.