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Gulden
| Issuer | Province of Holland |
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| Year | 1680 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | VIGILATE DEO CONFIDENTES 1 G (Translation: Watch, trusting in God) |
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Holland's gulden issues of the 1680s were struck under the decentralized authority of the Dutch Republic, where each province maintained its own mint — a monetary arrangement that produced persistent problems with substandard coinage and inter-provincial disputes over fineness. The States of Holland repeatedly issued resolutions against underweight pieces during this decade, and assay records from the period document chronic tensions between the provincial mint masters and the States-General in The Hague.
The Delmonte reference places this piece within a tightly catalogued sequence; the Ver#50.2 distinction separates die variants that are frequently conflated in less specialized collections.