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1680, Netherlands, Utrecht. Large Silver Rider / Ducaton (60 Stuiver) Coin. R!

Mint Year: 1680 Mint Place: Utrecht Denomination:  Ducaton of 60 Stuivers (Silver Rider) Reference: Davenport 4938, KM-63 ($400 in XF!). R!  Condition: Crudely struck, minor deposits, otherwise XF for this early issue! Weight: 32.53gm Diameter: 42mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Armored knight on horse, brandishing sword on jumping horse right. Crowned shield with arms of Utrecht below. Legend: MO  . NO  . ARG PRO . CON  (crowned shield) FOE  . BELG  . TRAI . (privy mark: shield)   Reverse: Crowned shield with, supported by crowned roaring lions. Date (1680) in foliage below. Legend: * CONCORDIA .- RES  PARVAE  - CRESCUNT .

In 1659 the Dutch states started production of the 'silver rider'   ducaton, featuring a mounted knight on horseback. This design weighing   32.779 grams of 0.941 silver also featured the crowned arms of the United Netherlands on the reverse, with a shield below the knight indicating the province   of minting. Rider ducatons were minted until 1798. In the period   1726-1751 ducatons were minted bearing the monogram of the Dutch East India Company. As a trade coin the familiar design of the Dutch rider helped it to compete against well-known world coins such as the Spanish dollar. It was valued at 60 stuivers.

Utrecht,   city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the   Dutch province of Utrecht. In 1579 the northern seven provinces signed   the Union of Utrecht, in which they decided to join forces against   Spanish rule. The Union of Utrecht is seen as the beginning of the Dutch   Republic. In 1580 the new and predominantly Protestant state abolished   the bishoprics, including the one in Utrecht, which had become an   archbishopric in 1559. The stadtholders disapproved of the independent   course of the Utrecht bourgeoisie and brought the city under much more   direct control of the Holland dominated leadership of the republic. This   was the start of a long period of stagnation of trade and development   in Utrecht, an atypical city in the new state, still about 40% Catholic   in the mid-17th century, and even more so among the elite groups, who   included many rural nobility and gentry with town houses there. The   city, which was held against its will in the states of the Republic,   failed to defend itself against the French invasion in 1672 (the   Disaster Year). The lack of structural integrity proved to be the   undoing of the central section of the cathedral of St Martin church when   Utrecht was struck by a tornado in 1674. The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713   settled the War of the Spanish Succession. In the early 19th century,   the role of Utrecht as a fortified town had become obsolete.