Ducats, ducats, ducats... I've seen a lot of them at auctions since the publication of the last thread above in 2016, but the appearance of the...
The Grain Collection is a collection of 85 Netherlands gold ducats. Quite a lot, so I would like to tell you about it in a few words. It's not...
Of course I knew that, Doug. I only wanted you to be more cautious, especially writing about coin rarity. It is good that you are educating the...
Sorry, but I do not have a correct classification of this coin type done, and I do not use other classifications, which I consider incomplete....
Silvereagle82, sorry for saying that, but only in 2021 three different Gorinchem nobles, all graded NGC MS-63, were or will be auctioned (of...
You read it in the auction catalog, I suppose. It only means that the person writing the description knew so many copies of this type. Look at the...
I am not an expert in this coinage and may be wrong here, but I wouldn't say based on your photos that the coin is cast. The legend is similar to...
Howdy Doug. Where did you get the information that the English Noble was copied from an even older coin of the Netherlands? What was this older...
Just found an example of a coin weight with a similar design....
No, it isn't.
Speaking of the provincial Utrecht ducats, you are right from 1586, till 1805 to be precise. Later ducats (Batavian Republic, Kingdom of Holland,...
Respectfully disagree ;) Maybe 1749 is not a key date in a Dutch history, but in the Holland coinage it is. You should have to look at the third...
Hi Hagenhomestead , that's a coin weight with a design of the Netherlands ducat, but it's definitely not made of gold. A coin should always have a...
Multiple ducats are very different from single and double pieces. Multiples were minted for two purposes: either for a souvenir for some nobleman,...
Hi CamaroDMD, sorry for a late answer. The diameter of the pieces known is 68.6 to 70.0 mm, depends on the specimen. I had a few of them in hands.
To the best of my knowledge the stolen coin was not 1 ton, but 100 kg. See here:...
The first gold ducats of the Dutch type (with a knight holding arrows on the obv, and the square with inscription on the rev) were minted in 1986...
Yeah, it's true! http://www.nlgonline.org/awards/annual-writers-competition/results-of-annual-writers-competition-for-2016/ (Link fixed.)
Thanks all of you, Guys! I received a message directly from Ed Reiter, the Executive Director of the NLG. But I also can't believe it's true ;)
As I promised to Mickey in PDX, here is a new post with a rich history background. It is about the first gold ducats minted in The Netherlands....
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