Zwolle 1682 3 gulden Dav-4970
This specimen was lot 280 in Schulman auction 385 (Amsterdam, July 2025), where it sold for €650 (about US$920 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"ZWOLLE. 3 Gulden, 1682, Silver Staande Nederlandse maagd, mmt. bloem na hoed. Kz. gekroond wapen: klimmende leeuw met stadsschild aan lint tussen 3 - G, daarboven jaartal. RR Grijsblauwe patina. Zeer fraai. (city of Zwolle, three gulden of 1682. Obverse: standing Dutch maid, mintmark flower by the cap; reverse: crowned arms showing a lion rampant supporting the city arms on a ribbon, with value and date. Very rare, gray blue patina, very fine.)"
This very scarce type was struck 1682 and 1686-90, just before the Zwolle mint finally closed in 1692. 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: 40,595.
Specification: 31.82 g, 0.920 fine silver, this specimen 31.38 g.
Catalog reference: KM 86, Delm. 1139; V. 173.3; Dav-4970; vdW. 206 var.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- 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]Absil, Andrew, Olle Cederholm, Erik de Visser and Rik van Noorloos, Schulman sale 385, Amsterdam: Schulman b.v., 2025.
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