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Ducaton 'Silver Rider' piedfort of double weight
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1659-1680 |
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| Value | 1 Ducaton (3) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Dog Harderwijk, Netherlands(1343-1802) |
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Piedforts were never intended for commerce. Provincial mints produced them as presentation pieces — gifts to magistrates, foreign dignitaries, or mint officials — and Gelderland's double-weight Ducaton examples from this period follow that tradition precisely. The Silver Rider ducaton itself was a workhorse trade coin, but a piedfort at 65.5 grams occupied an entirely different social register.
Gelderland was among the more assertive of the Seven Provinces in maintaining its own minting identity well into the latter seventeenth century, resisting pressure toward monetary uniformity even as Holland dominated the Republic's finances.