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Oord
| Issuer | Friesland, Province of |
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| Year | 1620-1649 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Reverse description | A standing Frisian farmer depicted in full figure, bearing a sword resting on his right shoulder, positioned within a beaded inner circle. The initials F and O (Frisia Ordines) flank the figure to the left and right respectively. The surrounding legend in Latin encircles the design. The rustic, emblematic treatment of the figure is consistent with the regional iconographic tradition of the Dutch provincial States coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Friesian oord occupied an awkward position in the Dutch monetary system — a provincial copper piece whose exchange rate against silver shifted repeatedly as the States of Friesland quarreled with the generality over small-change policy throughout the Thirty Years' War period. Copper coinage of this type was chronically overproduced by several provinces simultaneously, flooding local markets and driving repeated official attempts at demonetization.
Survivors in any condition above heavily worn are genuinely scarce; these circulated hard in a region where small copper was the daily transaction coin for most of the working population.