3 Gulden date reverse, Piedfort of double weight

Zeeland struck piedforts — coins of double or greater thickness produced from regular dies — almost exclusively for presentation purposes, distributed to civic officials, foreign dignitaries, and occasionally the States-General itself. This 1694 piece belongs to a well-documented if sparsely surviving class of Dutch provincial presentation strikes; Delmonte catalogued relatively few confirmed examples, and survivorship in collectible condition is limited by the very nature of their original use as handled gifts rather than archived specimens.

The dating on the reverse rather than the obverse is specific to Zeeland's gulden coinage of this period, a provincial quirk that distinguishes these strikes from Holland and Gelderland issues of the same series.