2 Gulden Gold, Piedfort 8 ducat weight, MO ARG

Piedfort coins from the Dutch Republic were never intended for commerce — they were presentation pieces, struck on oversized planchets for gifting to foreign dignitaries, magistrates, or stadtholders as marks of official favor. This particular Holland issue at 8 ducat weight places it among the heavier end of such productions, a deliberate signal of the province's wealth at a moment when the Republic's finances were being strained by the Nine Years' War, which had only just concluded at the Treaty of Ryswick that same year.

The Holland mint's piedfort output from this decade is sparsely documented, with surviving specimens spread across a handful of institutional collections.