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Gulden
| Issuer | States of Holland |
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| Year | 1694-1794 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain (1694-1747); Reeded (from 1748) |
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| Mintage | 1694 - Smooth edge - 1703 - - 39,560 1711 - overdate variety exists - 962,389 1713 - - 1713 - 1713/1 - 1714 - - 1714 - overdate variety exists - 154,691 1715 - - 1715 - 1715/4 overdate variety exists - 1716 - - 1721 - - 50,230 1734 - - 768,461 1734 - overdate variety exists - 1735 - - 1736 - - 160,027 1736 - overdate variety exists - 1737 - - 1737 - overdate variety exists - 619,614 1738 - - 1748 - Reeded edge - 1748 - Smooth edge - 1749 - Reeded edge - 1749 - Smooth edge - 54,386 1762 - - 1762 - overdate variety exists - 1763 - - 1763 - overdate variety exists - 1764 - - 1,219,000 1765 - - 1790 - - 1,363,000 1791 - - 1792 - - 1793 - - 4,877,937 1794 - - |
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The States of Holland gulden occupied a peculiar position in the Dutch monetary system — technically a provincial issue, yet widely accepted across the Republic and beyond its borders. Holland's economic dominance within the Dutch Republic meant its coinage carried de facto authority that outweighed its formal status. Dutch silver circulated heavily in Atlantic trade networks, and Holland guldens found their way into colonial cashboxes from Batavia to Curaçao.
Production continued uninterrupted through a century of war, financial crisis, and ultimately the collapse of the Republic itself in 1795, when French-backed revolutionaries abolished the old provincial structure entirely.