Zwolle 1648 1/2 daalder
This specimen was lot 78292 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, November 2025), where it sold for $192. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Zwolle. 1/2 Lion Dollar (Daalder), 1648. PCGS Genuine--Environmental Damage, VF Details. From the Richard August Collection." Lion daalders were struck in most of the provinces that today make up the Netherlands. This half daalder is recorded in the SCWC for Zwolle for 1641-52. Lion daalders and their half are famously some of the worst struck coins in numismatics. Zwolle was a municipal mint, not a provincial mint. The States General spent most of the seventeenth century attempting to suppress the municipal mints, denouncing their product as under weight and low fineness.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.84 g, 0.750 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-45.
- 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]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, November 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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