6 Stivers gold

Utrecht's gold 6 Stivers belongs to a period when the Dutch provincial minting system was badly fragmented — each of the seven provinces retained its own mint rights, producing overlapping and often mutually competing coinages that the States-General repeatedly tried and failed to rationalize. The Munttractaat of 1694 had attempted to impose uniformity, but Utrecht and several other provinces continued striking their own gold issues well into the eighteenth century in open defiance of the spirit of that agreement.

Delmonte's reference remains the authoritative catalog for Dutch gold of this type; die marriages documented under G#986 show meaningful variation across the production run.