Gelderland 1641 1/2 daalder
This specimen was lot 72652 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, October 2019), where it sold for $95. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Gelderland. 1/2 Lion Daalder (Leeuwendaalder), 1641. NGC AU Details--Cleaned. Some typical striking weakness plagues the central areas of each side, though the referenced cleaning does not distract, with pleasing toning now emerging." "Lion" daalders were struck in Gelderland and other Dutch provinces until 1697 but are seldom seen in collectible condition. Simultaneous with the Lion daalder (48 stuivers) was the "prince" daalder (40 stuivers), the silver ducat (also 48 stuivers), the three gulden (60 stuivers) and the ducaton (silver rider). The catalog does not explain why so many different large silver coins were felt to be necessary. This type was struck with various mintmarks 1606-53 with this subtype appearing 1637-47. It has a low catalog value as nearly all specimens are so wretchedly made as to be uncollectible.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.84 g, 0.750 fine silver, silver.
Catalog reference: KM-13.4.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The October 2019 Collector's Choice Sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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