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28 Stuivers / Florin Pattern
| Issuer | Overijssel, Province of |
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| Year | 1685 |
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| Value | 28 Stuivers = 1 Florin (1.4) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the quartered provincial arms of Overijssel are displayed on a shield surmounted by an elaborate crowned helmet with mantling. The shield's quarters bear alternating lions and eagle charges, executed in high relief consistent with late 17th-century Dutch engraving. The date 1685 appears in the field above the crown at the top of the inner circle. The surrounding circular legend is rendered in Roman capitals, separated by periods, running along the outer border. |
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| Mintage | 1685 |
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Overijssel's 1685 florin pattern was never adopted for circulation — a provincial experiment in a period when the Dutch Republic's internal monetary politics were a genuine mess, with individual provinces jealously guarding minting rights while simultaneously undercutting one another on coin weights and fineness. A gold striking of a denomination ordinarily produced in silver suggests this was an essai intended to demonstrate die quality or court a specific transaction, not a proposal for everyday commerce.
CNM 2.38.84 cross-references confirm the extreme rarity of the type. Known survivors are counted in single digits.