Austrian Netherlands 1750(l) escalin

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Jean Elsen sale 137, lot 584

This specimen was lot 584 in Jean Elsen sale 137 (Brussels, June 2018), where it sold for €75 (about US$104 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,

"VLAANDEREN, Graafschap, Maria Theresia (1740-1780), AR schelling, 1750, Brugge. Vz/ Leeuw n.l., met zwaard en wapen van Oostenrijk-Bourgondië. Kz/ Gekroond wapenschild op een stokkenkruis. Licht gejusteerd. Zeer Fraai à Prachtig. (county of Flanders, Maria Theresia, 1740-80, silver schilling of 1750, Bruges mint. Obverse: lion to left, brandishing sword and supporting the arms of Austria-Burgundy; reverse: crowned arms over a Burgundian cross. Light adjustment marks, very fine to extremely fine.)"

This type was struck in 1749-50 during the reign of Maria Theresia. This denomination was accompanied by a double escalin and marks a resumption of coinage for the Austrian Netherlands, which had lapsed about 1706. It was replaced by the ten liards and 14 liards in 1755. The Austrians lost Belgium to Revolutionary France in 1797. After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, Belgium passed to the king of the Netherlands.

Recorded mintage: allegedly 2,016 (probably 2,016,000) for 1750-52.

Specification: 5 g, 0.562 fine silver, 24 mm diameter; this specimen is 4,88 g.

Catalog reference: V.K. 96; Haeck 854, KM 4.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 137, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2018.

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