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Duit
| Issuer | Province of Holland |
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| Year | 1590-1598 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a seated female figure, representing the personification of Holland or a maiden, enthroned and shown in three-quarter or frontal view, draped in flowing robes. She appears to hold attributes in each hand, consistent with the allegorical imagery common to Dutch provincial duits of the period. The figure is encircled by a wreath of branches, and a circular Latin legend surrounds the design, separated by pellet stops and a floral ornament. The die work is characteristic of hammered coinage with typical strike irregularities. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Holland's duit coinage of the 1590s was struck while the province was simultaneously funding the early campaigns of the Eighty Years' War and financing the first Dutch merchant expeditions to the East Indies. Small copper was perpetually short in the occupied Netherlands, and the provincial mints ran near-continuously to keep fractional currency in circulation. The Holland issues of this period are distinguished from those of the other provincial mints by subtle differences in the arms rendering that collectors have used to attribute examples since Verkade's classification work.