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6 Stuivers `Scheepjesschelling` Brockage error
| Issuer | Province of Zeeland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1581-1795 |
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| Value | 6 Stuivers (3⁄10) |
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| Obverse description | A three-masted sailing ship depicted in profile moving to the right, rendered in fine detail with rigging, sails billowing, and hull visible above the waterline. The ship occupies the majority of the coin's field in the characteristic style of the Zeeland Scheepjesschelling series. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading ITA RELINQVENDA UT ACCEPTA, meaning 'It should be left as it has been received.' A Middelburg mint mark is present within the legend. The overall design reflects the maritime mercantile identity of the Province of Zeeland. |
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| Mint | ♜ Middelburg, Netherlands(1100-1798) |
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A brockage occurs when a freshly struck coin sticks to the die and becomes an unintended punch for the next blank fed into the press — producing a mirror-image incuse impression of the obverse on what should be the reverse. For a provincial mint operating under the decentralized and chronically under-supervised structure of the Dutch Republic, such errors were neither systematically caught nor destroyed with any consistency, which is why Zeeland brockages occasionally surface in collections today.
Zeeland's mint at Middelburg ran intermittently across the full two-century span of this type, with output quality varying sharply depending on the decade and the competence of the incumbent mintmaster.