Netherlands 1805 silver ducat Dav-225
In 1795 the revolutionary armies of France invaded and occupied the United Provinces and reorganized it into the puppet Batavian Republic, which survived until 1806, when Napoleon installed his brother Louis on the newly created throne of the Kingdom of Holland, which lasted only until 1810. After Napoleon's fall in 1814, William I, of the old house of Orange, was made king. This specimen was lot 22270 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2019), where it sold for $456. The catalog description[1] noted, "AUSTRIAN NETHERLANDS. Batavian Republic. Silver Ducat, 1805. Utrecht Mint. NGC MS-63. Lustrous and lightly toned, free of hairlines and other defects except for a tiny planchet flaw in "CONCORDIA" on the reverse. The Batavian Republic was a state formed out of the wreckage of the old Dutch United Provinces in 1795. Always French dominated but never truly a puppet state, its profitable embrace of smuggling annoyed Napoleon so much that he installed his brother Louis as king of Holland in 1806, to no avail. This type is frequently catalogued as a rijksdaalder but is indistinguishable in design or size from the silver ducat struck under the United Provinces." This type was struck 1795-1805. An 1805/797 overdate exists.
Recorded mintage: 6,282,780 for 1795-1805 (includes Utrecht, Holland and Gelderland).
Specification: 28.08 g, 0.868 fine silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-225; KM 10.4.
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- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2019 Chicago ANA Auction: World Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2019.
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