Deventer 1618 florin
This specimen was lot 76027 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $145. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Deventer. 28 Stuivers (Florin), 1618. In the name of Holy Roman Emperor Matthias. PCGS Genuine--Cleaned, AU Details." This type was struck 1617-21 in sufficient quantity to make it worth counterfeiting, aided by the crude design and bad alloy. After decades of complaints, the States General managed to close all the municipal mints by the end of the seventeenth century, citing constant fraud in weight and fineness of their products.
Recorded mintage: 390,000.
Specification: 20.51 g, 0.673 fine silver, 38.8 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-25; Delm-1107.
- 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, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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