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Rijksdaalder Klippe, piedfort of triple weight
| Issuer | Munt van Holland (Dordrecht Mint) |
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| Year | 1631 |
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| Shape | Klippe |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | x CONCORDIA · RES · PARVÆ · CRESCVNT 1631 (Translation: Unity makes strength) |
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Holland's mint at Dordrecht produced klippe piedforts of this kind not for circulation but as presentation pieces — gifts to diplomats, foreign dignitaries, and municipal officials whose goodwill the Dutch Republic actively cultivated during the Eighty Years' War. A triple-weight piedfort in silver at this scale was an unambiguous statement of the Republic's financial confidence at a moment when Spanish military pressure remained a genuine threat.
The Dordrecht Mint held the Holland provincial contract intermittently and was among the more active of the Republic's competing municipal mints. 1631 falls within a period of relatively stable Dutch silver supply, partly sustained by trade through the VOC.