1 ounce silver Netherlands 2023 BU - DUCATON RIDER - Restrike Silver Ducat 1761

• Obverse: Features a knight riding his horse along with the lettering "MO.NO.ARG.PRO.CON FOE.BELG.D.GEL.C.Z." which translates to "New Silver coin of the Dutch Republic. Duchy of Gelderland."
• Reverse: Displays the coat of arms and date along with the lettering "CONCORDIA. RES.PARVAE. CRESCVNT." which translates to "Concordance makes small things grow."
• Guaranteed by the Royal Dutch Mint
• Official restrike. Not a legal tender coin

Official 1 oz .999 Silver Restrike Issue of the Royal Dutch Mint
Restrike of the former trade coin " Ducaton Silver Riders ".
Motif Silver Rider on horseback with raised sword, ready for battle
The Ducaton was first issued in 1761 by the Province of Utrecht
It is the 3rd issue in this series after the Restrike ship of 2021

The silver ducats of the Netherlands

A very collectible silver ducat recovered from the wreck of the Hollandia in 1743. The Hollandia was a merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company. On her maiden voyage from Texel in the Netherlands to Batavia, Indonesia, she collided with Gunner Rock near Annet in the Scilly Isles and sank on the night of July 13, 1743. All 276 crew members died in the wreck.

The wreck of the Hollandia was located in the early 1970s by a London lawyer named Rex Cowan. Since then, some 35,000 silver coins have been recovered from the remains of the ship, which are still scattered on the seabed. This ducat (also called ducatons or ducatones) was minted in West Frisia in the Netherlands in 1669, with the dated reverse worn away by the tides.

Ducats produced in the Dutch states after 1659 are known as "Silver Horsemen" because of the characteristic motif of mounted Knights.

About the Royal Dutch Mint
The Royal Dutch Mint is a company owned entirely by the Dutch State, and since 1807 the only Dutch entity that is allowed to strike and issue coins.

On September 17, 1806, when The Netherlands was under the rule of King Louis Napoleon, he decided that the striking and distribution of coins should be by a single, national body. This was in contrast to the Middle Ages custom of large trading cities having their own mint and coins, which resulted in several coins circulating within the country, and many levels of controlling bureaucracy.

Originally it was the intention to found the mint in the capital city of Amsterdam but, since there was insufficient finance available, it was decided to locate the National Mint seat in Utrecht.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1813, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded with William I as King, the Mint was renamed as Rijks Munt. What is now known as Belgium was a part of the new kingdom, and a second Mint was located in Brussels. When Belgium achieved independence in 1839, the Rijks Munt became the only mint in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The provincial coins had been minted before the unification of the Mint were still in circulation. Due to their relatively high intrinsic value, the "new" coins would only gain popularity with the passage of time. In 1849 the provincial coins were officially taken out of circulation.

In 1901 the company was placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance, and in 1912 the Mint officially became a company owned by the State. At the end of the German occupation during the Second World War, in 1944, coins were produced in the United States. This was necessary to ensure that there would be enough currency available after the liberation. In 1994 's Rijks Munt was renamed as De Nederlandse Munt NV. It became a company, 100% of whose shares are owned by the Dutch State. The Queen awarded the company the prefix Koninklijk (Royal) five years later, and the company was now allowed to call itself De Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt (The Royal Dutch Mint).