Mint: Harderwijk
Mintmaster: Martinus Holtzhey Sr.
Rarity: R2 (for unrecorded overdate)
Provenance: ex Schulman B.V. (Amsterdam, NL), private treaty
Obverse: Armoured knight brandishing sword in right hand, on charging horse right; below, crowned shield with provincial arms of Gelderland dividing legend; mintmaster mark left of shield; legend around; toothed border; variety without “rosette” before MO in legend: MO∙AUR∙PRO.CONFŒD∙ — BELG.D.G.& C.Z.
Reverse: Crowned coat of arms of the United Provinces with crowned lion left, holding a sword and bundle of arrows; arms dividing value 14 — Gᴸ; date above crown; legend around; toothed border: CONCORDIA RES PARVÆ CRESCUNT.
Edge: obliquely milled
Historic context: Martinus Holtzhey Sr. was appointed master of the Provincial Mint in Harderwijk in 1749. In 1752 - after a dispute about the appointment of his 15 year old son Martinus Jr. as die cutter - he left Harderwijk for Middelburg to take up the position of mint master at the Zeeland Provincial Mint over there. His mintmaster's mark of a half-tall male figure with two rue bushes held aloft in his hands, is derived from the coat of arms of the german Holthay family from which the mintmaster believed he descended. Behind the man we see a wavy line, which probably represents the Rhine or Moselle river as a reference to the wine regions in that area.