Netherlands, Kampen Dukaton 1676

Rare Kampen Dukat 1676 – Silver Rider with leaf ornament and inner circle (Type 1659–1675)

Dukaton or silver rider, struck in 1676 at Kampen in Overijssel within the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Issuance under the responsibility of the moneyer Jacob Ridder, within the late-17th-century large-silver coinage where the rider formed an important trade coin for both domestic circulation and international trade.

The obverse shows the horse-mounted knight, according to the classic type with crowned municipal arms. The reverse is executed with the Generality Coat of Arms, provided with a striking leaf ornament under the arms and an inner circle, characteristic of transitional forms within the series. Although dated 1676, this specimen typologically closely aligns with the earlier emissions from the period 1659–1675, in which these reverse- and ornament- variants already originate.

The coin can be placed within a phase in which the Republic derived its monetary stability in part from standardized silver pieces, whereby regional mints such as Kampen contributed a recognizable but strictly regulated role. The execution shows the usual weaknesses of striking for the type, appropriate to the technical limitations of large-silver production in this period.

Literature: Delmonte 1040; Verkade 159.3 (reverse) and 159.5 (obverse); HNPM 34; CNM cf. 2.30.54 / 2.30.55; Davenport 4945.

A very rare specimen (RRRR) within the Kampen issues of the silver rider.