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Silver Ducat
| Issuer | Groningen and the Ommelanden, Province of |
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| Year | 1683 |
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| Weight | 28.25 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1683 |
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Groningen occupied an awkward position in the Dutch Republic — nominally one of the seven sovereign provinces, but chronically underfunded and frequently at odds with the Ommelanden, the rural district surrounding the city proper. The two were formally united under a single provincial government only in 1594, and the tension between urban merchant interests and landed Ommelanden nobility never fully resolved. That political friction shows up in the coinage: joint issues required negotiated authority, and Groningen's silver ducats were struck to satisfy both trade obligations within the Republic and the province's own insistence on fiscal autonomy.
KM#41 ducats of this period were struck to the interprovinciaal standard that made Dutch silver ducats a trusted trade coin from the Baltic to the Levant.