2 Gulden No value, Provincial arms

Gelderland's provincial coinage of the 1690s was produced under sustained fiscal pressure — the Nine Years' War against Louis XIV had drained the Dutch Republic's provinces individually as well as collectively, and minting activity across the regional houses reflected urgent demand for circulating silver. Gelderland, the easternmost and historically most contested of the provinces, maintained its own mint at Harderwijk throughout this period.

The Voogt reference places this piece squarely within a well-documented provincial series, though die marriages between the gulden denominations of this decade are still incompletely catalogued.