Nijmegen 1602 6 stuivers
This specimen was lot 1640 in Jean Elsen sale 162 (Brussels, June 2025), where it sold for €340 (about US$471 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"PROVINCES-UNIES, NIMÈGUE, Ville, AR escalin à l'aigle (arendschelling), 1602. Au titre de Rodolphe II. D/ Écu couronné de la ville. R/ Aigle impériale éployée. Avec certificat. Provient de l'épave du V.O.C. Lastdrager (1653). (United Provinces, city of Nijmegen, silver eagle escalin or schilling of 1602, struck in the name of Rudolf II. Obverse: crowned arms of the city; reverse: imperial eagle displayed. With certificate, from the wreck of the Lastdrager (1653). Very Fine.)"
Nijmegen struck coins on its own account and that of the province of Gelderland. This type was struck 1602-04 and undated. The arendschelling was called an escalin in French speaking areas and was worth six stuivers. The municipal mints' habit of coining to short weight and short alloy infuriated the Estates General, which spent most of the seventeenth century on a campaign to close them all.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 6 g, 0.500 fine silver, this specimen 3,98 g.
Catalog reference: KM 10.1, Verk. 23, 2; Passon 61.
- 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]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 162: Collection Jacques Druart, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2025.
Link to:
- Gelderland 1601 6 stuivers (roosschelling)
- Holland 1601 6 stuivers (roosschelling)
- Nijmegen 1603 6 stuivers (arendschelling)
- Kampen (1612-19) 6 stuivers (roosschelling)
- Coins and currency dated 1602