Brabant 1650(h) 1/2 ducaton
This specimen was lot 572 in Schulman auction 379 (Amsterdam, June 2024), where it sold for €110 (about US$141 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT - 1/2 Ducaton 1650, Silver, PHILIPPE IV 1621-1665 Anvers. 2me type. Buste du roi avec mince collet a droite en haut main entre le millesime .PHIL. IIII. D. G. HISP. ET. INDIAR. REX. R/. ecu couronne et supporte par deux lions .ARCHID. AVST. DV - X. BVRG. BRAB. Z- C. R Tres beau. Un peu de corrosion au avers. Zeer fraai. (duchy of Brabant, Philip IV, 1621-65, silver half ducaton of 1650, Antwerp mint, second type. Obverse: bust right in thin collar, hand mintmark and date above; reverse: crowned arms supported by two lions. Rare, very fine, a touch of corrosion on the obverse.)"
Ducatons were issued in the Spanish Netherlands and associated states (including the bishopric of Liège and Franche Comte) during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where they competed with French écus, German talers and Dutch daalders and patagons. Fractional ducatons are much less frequently encountered. The half ducaton shown here was struck at the Antwerp and Brussels mints 1637-66. The SCWC prices the Brussels issues about double the Antwerp issue. The other provinces issued this type, including Artois, Flanders, Tournai and Luxembourg.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 16.24 g, 0.944 fine silver; this specimen 16.18 g.
Catalog reference: KM 73.1, GH. 328.1b; Delm-288; de W. 1006; Vanhoudt 643AN.
- 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.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Absil, Eddy, Florentine van Hees, Tim Poelman, Catelijne van den Bosch, Evert Philippeau, Andrew Absil, Schulman sale 379, Amsterdam: Schulman b.v., 2024.
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