Duit

Gelderland's duits of this period were struck under the dying gasps of the Dutch Republic, which collapsed entirely when French Revolutionary forces overran the Netherlands in 1795 and established the Batavian Republic. Provincial coinage authority — jealously guarded by each of the Seven Provinces for centuries — vanished overnight. Issues from the final years before that rupture were often poorly produced, with Gelderland contracting out work to secondary facilities when its own capacity was strained by wartime economic disruption.