Deventer 1640 1/2 daalder KM-A51
This specimen was lot 5646 in Künker sale 386 (Osnabrück, March 2023), where it sold for €4,000 (about US$5,169 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NIEDERLANDE, DEVENTER, Stadt. 1/2 Löwentalerklippe 1640. Von größter Seltenheit. Hübsche Patina, winz. Kratzer im Feld der Rückseite, sehr schön-vorzüglich. Exemplar der Sammlung Coenen. Exemplar der Auktion Laurens Schulman 28, Hilversum 2002, Nr. 641. (Netherlands, city of Deventer, klippe lion half daalder of 1640. Extremely rare, handsome patina, scratches in the reverse field, very fine to extremely fine.)"
The regular half daalder (KM 40) is not a common coin but the klippe format shown here is very rare. After decades of complaints, the States General managed to close all the municipal mints by the end of the seventeenth century, citing constant fraud in weight and fineness of their products.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.84 g, 0.750 fine silver, this specimen 14.00 g.
Catalog reference: KM A51, Delm-886 a (R4); Purmer De 17.1.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- van der Wis, Jan, and Tom Passon, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Munten geslagen sind bet aantreden van Philips II tot aan het einde van de Bataafse Republiek (1555-1806), 2nd ed., Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Omni-Trading b.v., 2009.
- [1]Künker, Fritz Rudolf, Horst-Rudiger Künker, Ulrich Künker and Andreas Kaiser, Katalog 386: Brakteaten | Mainz | Bibliothek Prof. Dr. Niklot Klüßendorf | Mittelalter und Neuzeit | Goldprägungen | Deutsche Münzen ab 1871, Osnabrück: Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co., AG, 2023.
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