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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silvereagle82, post: 789645, member: 1700&quot;]There is another ducat I wish to share with all of you with some interesting history.....</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Netherlands (Utrecht) 1724 Ducat</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f374/silvereagle82/172420Netherlands20ducat20obv-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f374/silvereagle82/172420Netherlands20ducat20rev-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A ducat of this mint &amp; year was not considered to exist prior to the finding of the wreck of the Akerendam on 16 July 1972, by three Swedish sports divers, Bengt-Olof Gustafsson, Stefan Persson and Eystein Kroh-Dalen. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The ‘Akerendam’ was a Dutch East-Indiaman ship that wrecked at the Island of Runde, off the west coast of Norway, on March 8, 1725 during a North Sea storm. It was inroute to Batavia (Djakarta, Idonesia) for trade. In total 19 chest of gold and silver coins, some 16,000 coins were recovered in the wreckage. Of this total, 6,506 were 1724 gold ducats from the Utrecht mint !!</p><p>Though some five chest of coins were salvaged at the time of the wreck apparently no ducats dated 1724, were part of the recovery.</p><p><br /></p><p>The foremost reference book on gold coins for the territories of the former northern and southern Netherlands, <b>&quot;Le Benelux D&#039;or&quot;</b>, does not have any reference to this coin because it was written and published by A. Delmonte in 1964 !!</p><p><br /></p><p>The example pictured was acquired by me in October 2006 from GDJMSP and is graded NGC MS63. It is a classic shipwreck coin ....247 years in Davy Jones&#039;s Locker !![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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