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Duit Brockage error
| Issuer | Province of Zeeland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Brockage reverse displaying an incuse, mirror-image impression of the obverse die: the crowned Zeeland coat of arms with the rampant lion above wavy sea lines appears sunken and laterally reversed across the entire field. This error resulted from a previously struck coin adhering to the upper die and acting as an ersatz die upon the next blank, producing the characteristic incuse and mirrored repetition of the obverse type. No legend is present, and the incuse crown surmounts the shield at lower centre relative to the normal obverse orientation. |
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Brockage errors occur when a freshly struck coin adheres to the upper die and becomes the effective die for the next blank fed into the press — producing an incuse, mirror-image impression on one face. For Zeeland duits, where the copper planchets were often poorly prepared and the striking pressure inconsistent, the conditions for this kind of mis-strike were more favorable than in higher-denomination production.
Zeeland duits were among the most widely circulated small coppers in the Dutch colonial trade network, turning up in VOC settlement sites from Batavia to the Cape. A brockage from this issue is a production accident that survived disposal — worn or defective pieces were routinely melted and re-struck.