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2 Ducats Early type
| Issuer | Utrecht, Province of |
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| Year | 1650-1720 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date) |
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Utrecht's ducat production in this period occupied an awkward administrative position: the province was simultaneously bound by the States-General's coinage ordinances and resistant to them, resulting in periodic disputes over fineness standards and the right to strike double ducats at all. The "early type" designation separates these pieces from later Utrecht output where die workmanship noticeably declined, a deterioration well-documented in Delmonte's comparative die studies.
Dutch gold ducats of this type circulated far beyond the Republic's borders — extensively through the Baltic trade and into the Ottoman Empire — which is why so many survivors show the kind of edge wear inconsistent with domestic handling.