2 Stuivers

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.