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Ducaton 'Silver Rider'
| Issuer | Province of Holland |
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| Year | 1671 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MO: NO: ARG: PRO. CONFOE. BELG: COM: HOLL: ❀ |
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Holland's ducaton was introduced in 1659 partly to compete with the Spanish patagon circulating heavily in the southern Netherlands trade networks. The "Silver Rider" type became one of the most widely travelled Dutch coins of the seventeenth century — carried by VOC merchants, held as specie reserves in Levantine counting houses, and hoarded across the Baltic littoral where Dutch trade credit ran deep.
The 1671 date falls squarely in the period preceding the French invasion of 1672, the Rampjaar, when Holland's financial system absorbed extraordinary pressure. Coins struck in the years immediately before that crisis tend to show normal production quality; it is the post-1672 issues where mint workload compressed die life noticeably.