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6 Stuivers `Snaphaanschelling`
| Issuer | States of Zeeland |
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| Year | 1669-1670 |
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| Weight | 6.53 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | LUCTOR · ET · EMERGO · 1670 (Translation: I struggle and overcome) |
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The snaphaanschelling takes its name from the flintlock musket — *snaphaen* in Dutch — a connection that points directly to Zeeland's preoccupation with provincial defense funding during the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars. This particular issue, struck across just two years, was part of a broader scramble by the Dutch provincial mints to produce subsidiary silver as maritime conflict drained bullion reserves and disrupted normal coinage cycles.
The .500 fineness marks a deliberate debasement from earlier snaphaanschellingen, a concession Zeeland's States made to keep metal flowing into the dies.