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Duit Brockage error
| Issuer | Province of Zeeland (Dutch Republic) |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the crowned coat of arms of Zeeland, depicting a rampant lion emerging from horizontal wavy lines representing the sea, all within a rectangular shield surmounted by an elaborate crown. The design is sharply struck in raised relief, with no surrounding legend visible in the field. The wavy lines at the base of the shield are boldly rendered, characteristic of the Zeeland provincial duit type of the Dutch Republic period. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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Brockage errors occur when a freshly struck coin adheres to the upper die and becomes the effective die for the next blank fed into the press — producing an incuse, mirror-image impression on one face. For Zeeland duits, where the copper planchets were often poorly prepared and the striking pressure inconsistent, the conditions for this kind of mis-strike were more favorable than in higher-denomination production.
Zeeland duits were among the most widely circulated small coppers in the Dutch colonial trade network, turning up in VOC settlement sites from Batavia to the Cape. A brockage from this issue is a production accident that survived disposal — worn or defective pieces were routinely melted and re-struck.