1 Ducat Dutch Republic (1581 - 1795) Silver

1697, Netherlands, Zeeland Province. Silver Knight Ducat Coin.

Mint Year: 1697 

Denomination: Silver Knight Ducat 

Province: Zeeland (mint mark: castle) 

Reference: Davenport 4914, KM-52.1.  

Weight: 26.88gm 

Diameter: 40mm 

Material: Silver

Obverse: Armored knight standing right, shouldering sword and holding crowned shield with arms of the Zeeland Province below. Legend: (privy mark castle) . MON . NO .  ARG . PRO . COM .  ZEL . 

Reverse: Three rosettes above crowned shield of the  Netherlands (crowned rampart lion welding sword and holding thunderbolts), splitting date (16-97). Legend: CONCORDIA . RES . PARVAE . CRESCUNT "Through concord little things grow (Union is strength!)"

Zeeland was a contested area between the counts of Holland and Flanders until   1299, when the count of Holland gained control of the countship of   Zeeland. Since then, Zeeland followed the fate of Holland. In 1432 it   became part of the Low Countries possessions of Philip the Good of   Burgundy, the later Seventeen Provinces. Through marriage, the Seventeen   Provinces became property of the Habsburgs in 1477. In the Eighty   Years' War, Zeeland was on the side of the Union of Utrecht, and became   one of the United Provinces. The area now called Zeeuws-Vlaanderen was   not part of Zeeland, but a part of the countship of Flanders (still   under Habsburg) that was conquered by the United Provinces, hence called Staats-Vlaanderen (see: Generality Lands). After the French   occupation (see département Bouches-de-l’Escaut) and the formation of   the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, the present province   Zeeland was formed.