August 2024 Global Showcase Auction – 12 - 23 August 2024
Ancient and World Coins and Currency
Part B: Mo, 12.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
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Part 1: Tu, 13.08.2024, from 1:00 AM CEST
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Part 12: Fr, 23.08.2024, from 6:00 PM CEST
Description
Gilt Silver West Frisian Commerce Medal
1596 Commerce of West Frisia and Holland Medal. Betts-16, Van Loon I:447. Silver, Gilt. Very Fine.
54.9 mm. 1362.9 grains. Rich golden surfaces and a vivid strike create bold beauty and undeniable appeal. Some authorities view this as a medallic multiple thaler of the Golden Age of Dutch commerce, coinciding with colonial wars with Spain in the Americas, which saw notable early victories over Spanish sea and land forces. It commemorates the first commercial expedition to Brazil. We have handled only one other example of this basic type, a variant design without date, that was offered as lot 3005 in our November 2020 Auction.
Ex Leonard H. Finn, October 9, 1965; John J. Ford, Jr.; our (Stack's) sale of the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection, Part XIII, January 2006, lot 672; our (Stack's) Philadelphia Americana Sale of September 2009, lot 6008; our Philadelphia ANA Auction of August 2012, lot 11114.
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| Price realized | 3'400 USD |
| Starting price | 1 USD |
| Estimate | 5'000 USD |
