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2 Ducats
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1650-1664 |
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| Weight | 6.98 g |
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| Obverse description | Armored knight standing facing right, dividing the date at either side, brandishing a sword upright in his right hand and grasping a bundle of seven arrows in his left hand, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The figure is rendered in the bold, somewhat crude style typical of hammered Dutch provincial gold coinage of the mid-seventeenth century. A circular Latin legend surrounds the inner circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gelderland's gold ducat coinage during this period emerged from a province still asserting its economic weight within the Dutch Republic's federated structure, where each province retained the right to strike gold independently — a source of constant friction with the States-General, which repeatedly sought to standardize coinage across all seven provinces. The two-ducat denomination was never issued in large quantities by any Dutch provincial mint, and Gelderland's output in particular was modest, making survivors scarce relative to the single-ducat series.
The Delmonte reference places this squarely among the rarest of the provincial gold issues catalogued in his 1901 study.