Netherlands East Indies 1839 gulden
This specimen was lot 30540 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2022), where it sold for $1,320. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. Kingdom of the Netherlands. Gulden, 1839. Utrecht Mint. William I. PCGS MS-64. The sole finest certified by PCGS, this impressive Gulden displays a charmingly soft luster along with rainbow toning that clings to the outermost peripheries near the legends. A lovely piece certain to appeal to the specialist." The Dutch hold on the East Indies in the early nineteenth century was weak and the British captured Batavia more than once during the Napoleonic Wars. Dutch control was restored at the Congress of Vienna. In the 1820's, the Dutch had conquered Java, parts of Sumatra and the Moluccas and was steadily expanded to include all of what is now Indonesia by World War One. This piece, one of a type struck for Indonesia 1839-40, is not listed as particularly expensive in the SCWC but it sold for six times the catalog price so perhaps the catalog is wrong. Similar gulden struck for the home country (KM 55) are also very scarce.
Recorded mintage: 2,217,250.
Specification: 10 g, 0.945 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-300a; Sch-616.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Peters, T., J. Scheper and J. Mevius, Muntalmanak 2018, 35e editie, Amsterdam: Nederlandse vereniging van munthandelaren, 2017.
- Passon, Tom, Catalogus van de Munten van de Nederlandse Gebieden Overzee, vanaf 1601 tot heden, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, 2022.
- Scholten, C., The Coins of the Dutch Overseas Territories, 1601-1948, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman, 1953.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The 2022 ANA Auction - Ancients & World Coins - Featuring The Salton Collection Part III, the Augustana Collection and the Robert C. Knepper Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2022.
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