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Silver Ducat - Batavian Republic Zeeland
| Issuer | Middelburg Mint (Province of Zeeland) |
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| Year | 1795-1798 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MON : NOV : ARG : PRO : CONFOED : BELG : COM : ZEL (Translation: New silver coinage of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, County of Zeeland) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Batavian Republic, proclaimed in January 1795 following the French-backed Patriot revolution that ousted the Stadtholder William V, inherited a fragmented minting system in which individual provincial mints continued striking coins largely as they had under the old Republic. Zeeland's Middelburg mint kept the ducat type alive through this transitional period, substituting republican imagery for the old provincial arms while the new government debated wholesale monetary reform — a debate that dragged on long enough that these transitional issues circulated well into the Napoleonic reorganization.
Delmonte distinguishes this Middelburg emission from the Holland and West Friesland strikings primarily through minor die characteristics and edge treatment.