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Duit "Statenduit"
| Issuer | City of Utrecht (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1578 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date) |
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Utrecht began striking copper duits in 1578, the same year the city formally joined the Union of Utrecht — the defensive alliance that would become the constitutional backbone of the Dutch Republic. The timing was not incidental. Municipal coinage asserted civic authority at precisely the moment the northern provinces were consolidating against Spanish Habsburg rule, and the duit served as the workhorse denomination for small daily transactions that silver simply couldn't reach.
The "Statenduit" designation distinguishes issues struck under States authority from earlier lordship coinage. Ver#115.4 places this among the earliest Utrecht copper emissions of the Republican period.