Ducaton 'Silver Rider' Gold, 11 ducats weight

Holland struck this piece during what the Dutch call the Rampjaar — the "Disaster Year" of 1672, when France, England, Münster, and Cologne simultaneously invaded the Republic. The provincial gold ducaton pattern series emerged from a period of acute monetary stress, when the States General debated emergency coinage to fund a war being fought on multiple fronts at once. Whether these were struck as presentation pieces, monetary proposals, or both remains contested among specialists.

Delmonte's attribution as a pattern (the "G" prefix) is the critical designation here. Mintage was almost certainly in the single digits.