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Silver ducat or Rijksdaalder Gold pattern, weight of 10 ducats
| Issuer | Zeeland, Province of |
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| Year | 1682-1686 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Reverse description | The crowned arms of the Dutch Republic — a rampant lion to the left holding a sword and a sheaf of arrows within a shield — occupy the central field, with the date 16-86 flanking the shield on either side. A large, elaborately jeweled and arched crown surmounts the shield. The circular Latin legend CONCORDIA. RES. PARVÆ. CRESCUNT runs along the milled border, the motto proclaiming that small things grow through concord. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Zeeland's silver ducat coinage of this period was itself something of a political statement — the province jealously guarded its minting rights against centralizing pressure from the States-General throughout the latter seventeenth century. This gold pattern, struck at ten-ducat weight, was almost certainly produced for presentation rather than circulation: a showpiece for foreign dignitaries or a gift to a regent, demonstrating the provincial mint's technical capability rather than serving any transactional purpose.
Delmonte's listing under G#896 places it among the rarest of Dutch provincial gold patterns. Fewer than a handful of confirmed examples are known.