7 Gulden '1/2 Gold Rider'

Holland's 7 Gulden piece — the half Gouden Rijder — was struck specifically to compete with the flood of foreign gold circulating in the Dutch Republic during the mid-eighteenth century, particularly French louis d'or pieces that dominated commercial transactions. The provincial mint at Dordrecht produced the bulk of these, though output was never large enough to displace the foreign coins it was meant to supplant.

The .920 fineness was a deliberate commercial calculation, pegged to facilitate exchange with German trade partners. Examples struck toward the end of the series, closer to 1763, show progressively shallower die work as the provincial mint's resources were increasingly diverted following the disruptions of the Seven Years' War.