Zwolle 1687 gulden
This specimen was lot 282 in Schulman auction 385 (Amsterdam, July 2025), where it sold for €750 (about US$1,061 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"ZWOLLE. 1 Gulden, 1687, Silver Staande Nederlandse maagd. Laatste R rechts van hoed. Kz. gekroond stadswapen tussen I - G, daarboven jaartal MO. NO. ARGENT. CIVI. ZWOL. RR. Voor dit type een uiterst duidelijke slag ondanks het onregelmatige muntplaatje. Zeer fraai. (city of Zwolle, silver gulden of 1687. Obverse: standing Dutch maid, with the last R to the right of the cap; reverse: crowned city arms dividing the value, date above. Very rare, exceptionally well struck despite the irregular planchet, very fine.)"
This very rare type was struck 1687 only, 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: 21,555.
Specification: 10.61 g, 0.920 fine silver, this specimen 10.02 g.
Catalog reference: KM 86, Delm. 1177; V. 173.4; vdW. 210.
- 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]Absil, Andrew, Olle Cederholm, Erik de Visser and Rik van Noorloos, Schulman sale 385, Amsterdam: Schulman b.v., 2025.
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