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Duit
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1702-1720 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears the crowned coat of arms of Gelderland at centre, depicting a quartered shield charged with two rampant lions facing one another, rendered in bold relief with fine detail in the mane and claws. A stylised open crown with fleurs-de-lis surmounts the shield. The circular legend 'IN · DEO · SP · NOS' is divided across the left and right fields flanking the shield, reading 'SP · NOS' on the left and 'IN · DEO' on the right. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border consistent with the obverse, and the overall composition reflects the standard heraldic style of Dutch provincial copper coinage of the period. |
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Gelderland's duits from this period circulated not only in the Dutch Republic but were swept up in bulk by the Dutch East India Company for use in Asian trade settlements, where small copper coinage was chronically undersupplied. Enormous quantities were shipped to Batavia and the Coromandel Coast, which is precisely why so many survivors show the kind of smooth, featureless wear more consistent with tropical pocket-carry than Dutch street commerce.