Zeeland 1762 ducaton Dav-1836
This specimen was lot 21268 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Anaheim, CA, August 2016), where it sold for $3,055. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Zeeland. Ducaton, 1762. NGC MS-65. A textbook example of the term CONDITION RARITY. The single finest graded at NGC by a massive seven point margin. A one in a million coin if only there were a million of them to be found! Absolutely unheard of quality for the type, with blistering white luster and a strike that puts this GEM BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED coin in a league all of its own." The specimen is one of a type issued for the province of Zeeland 1716-17, 1731-76, 1785-9. Each province of the Netherlands issued its own coins; besides Zeeland, there are coins for Deventer, Friesland, Gelderland, Groningen, Holland, Overijssel, West Friesland and Utrecht, not counting various local issues. The Netherlands were swallowed up in Napoleon's empire and after his fall, reconstituted as a kingdom.
Recorded mintage: 118,000 for 1789-90.
Specification: 32.78 g, 0.941 fine silver, .991 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: Dav-1836, KM 57.2; Delm-1028.
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- 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]Ponterio, Richard, The August 2016 Anaheim ANA Auction: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2016.
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