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2 Stuivers
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1678-1734 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the provincial name GELRIA in two lines, with the date inscribed below. The upper portion of the obverse features a privy mark flanked by two rosettes, serving as mint identification devices. The legends and inscriptions are rendered in upright Latin characters. The overall design is characteristic of the simple typographic style employed on the small silver provincial coinage of the Dutch Republic. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 S (Translation: 2 Stuivers) |
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Gelderland's persistent minting of small silver fractions through the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries reflected the province's stubborn fiscal independence within the Dutch Republic — each province retained its own mint authority, producing coins that circulated alongside but never quite harmonized with those of neighboring Holland or Utrecht. The 2 stuiver denomination filled a specific gap in everyday transactions that larger silver coinage couldn't serve.
The CNM references two distinct die varieties across this span, suggesting at minimum two separate production campaigns rather than continuous output across the full fifty-six year window.