Holland 1578 1/2 daalder
This specimen was lot 23459 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Philadelphia, August 2018), where it sold for $336. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Holland. 1/2 Lion Daalder, 1578. PCGS VF-35. Also known as a 1/2 Leeuwendaalder. A deeply toned example of this scarcer denomination. From the Cardinal Collection Educational Foundation." The leeuwendaalder and its half are famous in the numismatic world as being some of the worst struck coins in history. Most of the provinces and several of the cities struck them from the 1570's until the end of the seventeenth century. This type is recorded in the SCWC for Holland for 1601-53 with various mintmarks.
Recorded mintage: unknown but not expensive in low grade.
Specification: 13.84 g, 0.750 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Delm-870 (R3).
- 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]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio and Chris Chatigny, The August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction: World Coins and Selections from the El Dorado Collection of Colombian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2018.
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