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6 Stuiver `Scheepjesschelling` Dirck Bosch, with BP, piedfort at triple weight
| Issuer | States of West-Friesland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1677 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of West-Friesland, depicting two rampant lions passant guardant in pale, surmounted by a crown ornamented with floral rosettes. The date 1677 appears to the left of the shield, with the denomination numeral 6 and the mintmaster's initials B flanking the lower half of the arms, and the Bank Payment mark BP positioned to the right. The circumferential Latin legend runs along the milled border, reading MONE · ORDIN · WEST · FRISIAE, identifying this as the money of the Estates of West-Friesland. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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West-Friesland's scheepjesschelling coinage was produced at the Hoorn mint, one of the smaller provincial mints of the Dutch Republic operating under perpetual tension with the States-General over striking standards. The "BP" privy mark identifies Bosch as the mint master responsible for this issue. Piedfort production at the Dutch provincial mints was not a commercial exercise — these triple-weight strikes were produced as presentation pieces or official samples, almost certainly intended to demonstrate die quality and planchet preparation to provincial authorities.
Surviving West-Frisian piedforts from the 1670s are genuinely rare. The decade was financially strained by the Rampjaar of 1672 and its aftermath, when French invasion disrupted Dutch trade and strained mint output across the republic.