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6 Stuiver 'Scheepjesschelling' date above crown, piedfort klippe
| Issuer | States of West Friesland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1705-1715 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse lettering | MO : NO : ORDIN : WEST . FRISIÆ 1716 6 s (Translation: New Money of the state of West-Friesland) |
| Reverse description | A fully-rigged Dutch man-of-war frigate, with sails billowing and pennants flying from multiple masts, sails to the right over stylized waves, rendered in fine relief. The vessel is depicted in considerable detail, showing the hull, rigging, flags, and a decorative stern gallery. The circumferential Latin legend DEVS : FORTITVDO : ET . SPES : NOSTRA encircles the central device within a toothed inner border, the whole struck on the square klippe planchet consistent with the obverse. |
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The scheepjesschelling — "little ship shilling" — was a workhorse denomination of the Dutch provincial coinage system, circulating widely in the maritime trade networks that West Friesland serviced throughout the early eighteenth century. Piedfort klippes of this type are a different matter entirely: struck at roughly double weight on square planchets, they were almost certainly presentation pieces, produced to demonstrate die quality or mark a specific minting occasion rather than for any commercial purpose.
West Friesland maintained its own mint at Hoorn under the Dutch Republic's decentralized coinage authority, which permitted individual provinces to strike their own issues within federally mandated weight and fineness standards.