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Rijksdaalder
| Issuer | Holland, Province of |
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| Year | 1606-1693 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, armored half-length figure facing right, depicted in the style of a classical warrior, bearing a sword raised over the right shoulder and holding in the left hand a ribbon suspending a small shield bearing the arms of Holland. The effigy is rendered in high relief typical of Dutch hammered coinage of the period. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure, terminating with a rose mintmark denoting the Dordrecht mint. |
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| Obverse lettering | MO · ARG · PRO · CONFOE · BELG · HOL · ❀ (Translation: Silver coin of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Holland) |
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Holland's rijksdaalder was the province's answer to the fractured currency landscape of the early Dutch Republic, where each of the Seven Provinces struck its own coinage under loosely coordinated standards. The type ran for nearly ninety years under Holland's authority, making it one of the longer-lived provincial issues — though surviving examples cluster heavily toward the mid-to-late seventeenth century as mint output accelerated to fund the interminable wars with Spain, France, and England.
Holland's mint at Dordrecht handled the bulk of production, with Enkhuizen and later Amsterdam contributing sporadically. The .885 fineness was set by the 1659 provincial mint ordinance that attempted, with mixed success, to standardize silver content across competing Dutch issues.