Austrian Netherlands 1757(h) souverain d'or Fr-133
This specimen was lot 655 in Jean Elsen sale 158 (Brussels, March 2024), where it sold for €4,200 (about US$5,462 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"BRABANT, Duché, Marie-Thérèse (1740-1780), AV double souverain, 1757, Anvers. Deuxième type. D/ B. couronné à d. R/ Ecu ovale d'Autriche-Bourgogne, couronné, sur une croix de Bourgogne. Rare. Légères traces d'ajustage au revers. Très Beau. (duchy of Brabant, Maria Theresia, 1740-80, gold double souverain of 1757, Antwerp mint, second type. Obverse: crowned bust right; reverse: crowned oval arms of Austria and Burgundy over a Burgundian cross. Rare, light adjustment marks, Very Fine.)"
The souverain denomination was a holdover from Spanish rule in the seventeenth century and was struck until the collapse of the ancien regime. This style was struck 1757-63 and 1766 at Antwerp and Brussels. The Austrians lost Belgium to Revolutionary France in 1797.
Reported Mintage: 38,000, a better date.
Specification: 11.06 g, 0.919 fine gold, 0.326 troy oz AGW; this specimen 11,03 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-133, KM 24, W. -; Delm-209; VH 808.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- 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]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 158, Monnaies de la Principauté de Liège, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2024.
Link to:
- 1756 demi-souverain d'or, Antwerp mint
- 1756 souverain d'or, Vienna mint
- 1757 14 liards, Antwerp mint
- 1757 half kronenthaler, Antwerp mint, Maria Theresia
- 1757 half kronenthaler, Antwerp mint, Francis I
- 1757 kronenthaler, Antwerp mint, Maria Theresia
- 1757 kronenthaler, Antwerp mint, Francis I
- 1757 demi-souverain d'or, Antwerp mint
- 1760 souverain d'or, Brussels mint
- Coins and currency dated 1757