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Duit

Issuer States of Holland and West Friesland
Year 1604-1605
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Currency Gulden (1581-1795)
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Obverse script Latin
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The duit was the lowest denomination in the Dutch monetary system, and Holland's decision to strike copper coinage in the early seventeenth century reflected the commercial intensity of the province — small transactions in the booming Amsterdam market demanded enormous quantities of petty coin. Holland and West Friesland, though technically a single administrative unit, operated their mints with enough independence that die workmanship varied considerably between facilities, and examples from this short two-year window show meaningful variation in fabric and strike quality tied to specific mint output.

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