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Duit
| Issuer | Gelderland, Province of |
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| Year | 1783-1788 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears a three-line Latin inscription denoting the Duchy of Gelderland, with the date displayed below in the exergue. A privy mark in the form of an ear of corn appears at the bottom of the field, serving as a mint or master's mark. The lettering is rendered in a clear upright Roman style against a flat, unadorned field. The overall design is typographic, with no central effigy or pictorial device, characteristic of the utilitarian style of Dutch provincial copper coinage of the late 18th century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Gelderland's duit production in the 1780s took place against the backdrop of the Patriottentijd, the Dutch Patriot political crisis that split the republic along factional lines and ultimately triggered Prussian military intervention in 1787. Provincial minting authority was jealously maintained by each of the Seven Provinces precisely because coinage rights were a concrete expression of provincial sovereignty within the loose confederal structure — Gelderland among the most assertive in exercising that right. The resulting proliferation of near-identical provincial duits from this decade is a direct consequence of that political fragmentation.