Brabant 1601(h) 2 albertins d'or Fr-86
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This specimen was lot 25608 in Heritage sale 3019 (Chicago, April 2012), where it sold for $2,070. The catalog description[1] noted, "Brabant. Albert & Elizabeth gold 2 Albertins d'Or 1601 Antwerp, AU55 NGC, Hand mintmark, a choice coin with well-struck details and full mint luster, very close to mint state." This type is recorded for 1600-09 as part of a coinage reform (see Brabant (1600-11) 2 ducats Fr-84 for more details). Of the three mints that struck this type, Antwerp is the most common.
Recorded mintage: 15,000 for Antwerp, Maastricht and Brussels.
Specification: 5.15 g, .895 fine gold.
Catalog reference: KM 10.1, Fr-86.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Tucker, Warren, and Cristiano Bierrenbach, World and Ancient Coins sale 3019, Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- van Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713, Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
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