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14 Gulden
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1750-1762 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | A fully armored knight on a charging horse galloping to the right, brandishing an unsheathed sword aloft in the right hand. Beneath the horse, a crowned shield bearing the arms of Gelderland divides the encircling Latin legend. A privy mark appears to the left of the shield. The composition follows the classic Dutch Golden Rider type, rendered in bold, high-relief milled style consistent with mid-18th-century provincial coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 14 Gulden denomination is peculiar even by the standards of Dutch provincial coinage — it corresponds to the rider or cavalier d'or tradition but at a fraction adjusted specifically for trade settlement in the Rhine corridor, where Gelderland's geographic position made it a commercial intermediary between the Austrian Netherlands and the German states. The province struck these during a period when the Dutch Republic's federal coinage system was breaking down under competing provincial interests, each mint producing what the local economy demanded rather than what Utrecht's generaliteit preferred.
Gelderland's mint at Harderwijk was responsible for this output. Die-to-die consistency on this type is notoriously poor.