1766 AD., Dutch Republic, Gelderland, Duit, KM 93 overdate variety.
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Dutch Republic, Gelderland, Nijmegen mint, mintmaster Johan Cramer, 1766 AD.,
Duit (ø 21.5 mm / 2,86 g), copper, ca. 2,6-3,2 g. theor. mint weight, mintage ? , axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°),
Obv.: IN DEO EST SPES NOSTRA , crowned arms of Gelderland - Gekroond wapen van Gelderland (onze hoop is in de Heer).
Rev.: .D. / GEL / RIÆ / 1766/5 , four lines inscription, date and mintmasters symbol truncated tree below, within baroque cartouche, 1766 on 1765 overdate var. - Een zgn. rococostijl versiering met daarin de tekst .D. GEL RIÆ in drie regels. Daaronder het jaartal en het muntmeesterteken afgeknotte boom. De tekst is voluit: ducatus Gelriæ, en betekent: hertogdom Gelderland..
KM 93 var. ; V. 20.2 var. ; PW 1017 var. .
Year / Mintage
1758 / ?
1759
1760
1761
1762
1763
1764
1765
1766 overdate variety exists
1767 overdate variety exists
1768
Gelderland (also Guelders in English) is a province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. With a land area of nearly 5,000 km², it is the largest province of the Netherlands and shares borders with six other provinces and Germany.
The capital, and largest city, is Arnhem; but the two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn, are almost as large. Other major regional centres in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Tiel, Wageningen, Zevenaar, Winterswijk and Harderwijk.
Gelderland has a population of just over two million as of 2015.
Historically, the province dates from states of the Holy Roman Empire and takes its name from the nearby German city of Geldern.
The County of Guelders arose out of the Frankish pagus Hamaland in the 11th century around castles near Roermond and the town of Geldern. The counts of Gelre acquired the Betuwe and Veluwe regions and, through marriage, the County of Zutphen. Thus the counts of Guelders laid the foundation for a territorial power that, through control of the Rhine, Waal, Meuse, and IJssel rivers, was to play an important role in the later Middle Ages. The geographical position of their territory dictated the external policy of the counts during the following centuries; they were committed to the interests of the Holy Roman Empire and to expansion south and west.
Further enlarged by the acquisition of the imperial city of Nijmegen in the 13th century, the countship was raised to a duchy in 1339 by the Holy Roman Emperor, Louis IV. After 1379, the duchy was ruled from Jülich and by the counts of Egmond and Cleves. The duchy resisted Burgundian domination, but William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was forced to cede it to Charles V in 1543, after which it formed part of the Burgundian-Habsburg hereditary lands.
The duchy revolted with the rest of the Netherlands against Philip II of Spain and joined the Union of Utrecht (1579). After the deposition of Philip II, its sovereignty was vested in the States of Gelderland, and the princes of Orange were stadtholders. In 1672 the province was temporarily occupied by Louis XIV; and in 1713 the southeastern part, including the ducal capital of Geldern, fell to Prussia. Part of the Batavian Republic (1795–1806), of Louis Bonaparte’s Kingdom of Holland (1806–10), and of the French Empire (1810–13), Gelderland became a province of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815.
more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelderland
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