6 Stuivers 'Rijderschelling'

Kampen's right to strike its own coinage was a constant irritant to the States General throughout the seventeenth century. The city jealously defended its municipal minting privileges long after most Dutch towns had ceded that ground, and the Rijderschelling was among the denominations it continued producing under that contested authority. By 1680 the coin was something of an anachronism — the Dutch Republic had been pushing toward monetary standardization for decades, and small civic issues like this one were increasingly viewed in The Hague as an obstacle to a unified currency system.

The CNM reference places this squarely within a well-documented run of Kampen silver, though die marriages for this year show measurable variation in the rider's positioning — worth checking against Verkade's plates before attributing too precisely.