Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder'

The leeuwendaalder was never intended for domestic Dutch commerce. It was designed from the outset as a trade coin — underweight relative to the rijksdaalder and deliberately so, making it attractive to merchants operating in the Levant and along Baltic routes where its consistent silver content was trusted but its slight shortfall against full-weight imperial coins kept it flowing outward rather than being hoarded at home. The VOC and WIC moved enormous quantities eastward throughout the seventeenth century.

Overijssel's issues span nearly a century of output, and die quality varies considerably across that run. The later strikes, particularly those approaching 1701, tend to show cruder workmanship as provincial mint infrastructure declined relative to the Holland and Zeeland facilities.