Netherlands, Ducat 1831 - Kingdom of Holland, Utrecht

An example of the rarer, original minting in Utrecht, not from the Russian issue with a mintage 2.5 times higher. This coin served as the pattern for the Polish imitation, a ducat of the November Uprising of 1831 from the Warsaw mint. At the end of the obverse legend, a torch – the R.D.C. Suermondt mintmaster’s privy mark, used for his coins in 1818–1838. Ducat minted according to the pattern modified in 1817, the so–called „new type ducat” due to the characteristic legends on the obverse (full text of the motto of the Republic, without abbreviations) and the reverse (legend written in 4 lines), which since then have been minted in an unchanged form on subsequent years. While 410,832 pcs. of this date were minted in Utrecht, St. Petersburg mintage levels amounted to approx. 1 million pcs.