Utrecht 1760 7 gulden Fr-289

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Heritage sale 3026, lot 25388
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 25388 in Heritage sale 3026 (Long Beach, October 2013), where it sold for $998.75. The catalog description[1] noted, "Utrecht. Gold 7 Gulden 1760, MS62 NGC, a nice lustrous coin with sharply struck details, very bright and attractive." Each province of the Netherlands issued its own coins; besides Utrecht, there are coins for Deventer, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen (Fr-245), Holland, Overijssel, West Friesland and Zeeland, not counting various local issues. Utrecht issued this denomination 1749-51 and 1760-63 along with a fourteen gulden (Fr-288). The Netherlands were swallowed up in Napoleon's empire and after his fall, reconstituted as a kingdom.

Recorded mintage: 347,000.

Specification: 4.96 g, 0.917 fine gold, .146 troy oz AGW.

Catalog reference: Fr-289; KM-103.

Source:

  • Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
  • Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
  • 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.
  • 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]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and Scott Cordry, Heritage Signature Auction 3026, World & Ancient Coins, featuring the RLM Collection, Part Two, the Nogales Collection and the Goetz Medals Die Archive, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.

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