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2 Ducats

Issuer Gelderland, Province of
Year 1715-1761
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Weight 6.98 g
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Obverse script Latin
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Gelderland was one of the seven sovereign provinces of the Dutch Republic, and its gold ducat issues occupied an awkward commercial niche — too provincial for major international trade circuits dominated by the Holland and Utrecht mints, yet too valuable for routine domestic use. The two-ducat denomination was minted sporadically across nearly five decades, which accounts for the wide date range and the considerable variation in die quality found across the series.

Delmonte's cataloguing of these pieces remains the primary reference for distinguishing die marriages within the type.

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