Provinciale munten - Zeeland Zeeland duit 1663 Luctor et Emergo maiden in garden Middelburg copper KM# 33 VF/VF-

Province of Zeeland, duit 1663, copper, hammer struck at the Middelburg mint.

Obverse: the name of the province on three lines within a wreath of tulips, ZEE LAN DIA.

Reverse: the Dutch maiden seated in a garden of wickerwork and posts, her right hand raised. The small shield of Zeeland serves as the gate of that garden. Legend LVCTOR · ET · EMERGO with the date, I struggle and come out above.

References: KM# 33, Verkade 95.6, PW 4005.

The duit was the small change of the Dutch Republic: one hundred and sixty of them went to the guilder. This type ran from 1641 to 1670 and was struck at Middelburg, where the Zeeland mint had worked since 1580. The castle mintmark appears throughout the series, from 1641 to 1658 under mintmaster Pieter van de Voorde and from 1663 to 1665 under Jacob Boreel, so it is the date and not the mark that tells you who had the coin struck. The image on the reverse is older than the coin itself: the maiden in the fenced garden, the Garden of Holland, is the old emblem of a country that fences in its own ground and defends it, and she points upward as a sign of trust. The fence is formed by the arms of Zeeland, a half lion rising out of the waves. Those arms and the motto say exactly the same thing: LVCTOR ET EMERGO, I struggle and come out above, the answer of a province that had won its land from the water and had to defend it again with every storm. Pieces of this type exist with and without the castle, with the mark between or after the date, and with a reversed D in the name of the province. In 1669 the little shield on the reverse was given a crown.

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