Utrecht (1467-82) goldgulden Fr-190
This specimen was lot 511 in Jean Elsen sale 148 (Brussels, September 2021), where it sold for €320 (about US$454 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"NEDERLAND, UTRECHT, Bisdom, David van Bourgondië (1455-1496), AV St. Maartensgoudgulden, 1467-1482. Vz/ St. Maarten gezeten op een gotische stoel. Onderaan het wapenschild van Utrecht. Kz/ Bourgondisch wapenschild in een driepas. Fraai à Zeer Fraai. (bishopric of Utrecht, David of Burgundy, 1455-96, gold gulden of St. Martin, 1467-92. Obverse: St. Martin seated, the arms of Utrecht below; reverse: Burgundian arms in a trilobe. Fine - Very Fine.)"
The bishops of Utrecht issued gold coinage for their realm on occasion during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The last issue was in 1517, just prior to the wholesale conversion of the province to Protestantism. The bishop, seeing little prospect of recovering the area for the Church, sold his bishopric to Charles V in 1527. The familiar provincial coinage (see Fr-234) began with the States' Revolt of 1579.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 3.25 g, 0.986 fine gold, this specimen 3,29 g.
Catalog reference: v.d.Ch. 17, 9-10; Delm-945; Fr-190.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 148: Monnaies, Médailles et Décorations, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2021.
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