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Daalder 'Leeuwendaalder' Kampen
| Issuer | Kampen, City of |
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| Year | 1597 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kampen's leeuwendaalders circulated far beyond the Dutch Republic's borders — the type was deliberately engineered for export, its silver content kept just below the domestic rijksdaalder standard to ensure it flowed outward into Levantine and Baltic trade rather than being hoarded at home. By the 1590s, the Ottoman Empire and the Baltic grain ports had become so dependent on these coins that several cities minted them well past any official authorization, Kampen among them.
The 1597 date places this piece during a particularly aggressive phase of Kampen's independent minting activity, as the smaller cities jealously guarded their mint rights against centralization pressure from the States General.