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Small Gold Rider TRASFERT ET CONSTITVIT
| Issuer | Province of Gelderland |
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| Year | 1583-1600 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Gelderland's gold riders of this period were struck under the authority of the provincial States, not a sovereign prince — a direct consequence of the 1581 Act of Abjuration, which severed the northern provinces from Philip II and left each province managing its own coinage with uneven results. The legend TRASFERT ET CONSTITVIT, drawn from scripture, was a pointed theological and political declaration at a moment when the Dutch Revolt was far from settled.
Delmonte G#643 is among the scarcer provincial gold types of the period, with surviving examples frequently showing weak peripheral strikes owing to the small flan relative to the die face.