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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;goldducat, post: 2318961, member: 37873&quot;]The Polish 1831 Uprising ducats of the Dutch type are very special coins. There is only 163,025 pcs minted in 2 years (1831-32), a number of them was melted down. Of all the rest it is difficult to find a really mint condition piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Polish Uprising ducats are minted in 3 varieties:</p><p>1. with a dot before torch in the legend</p><p>2. with a dor after torch in the legend</p><p>3. without a dot before nor after torch</p><p><br /></p><p>Without a dot is a scarce variety, it look like this: <a href="http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=358119" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=358119" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=358119</a> (by the way, this coin was sold for $6,139, incl. Premium). A variety with a dot after torch is here: <a href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=171&amp;content=product&amp;category=73" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=171&amp;content=product&amp;category=73" rel="nofollow">http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=171&amp;content=product&amp;category=73</a> (sold for $4,502). The last variety, with a dot after torch is here <a href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=2248&amp;content=product&amp;category=205" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=2248&amp;content=product&amp;category=205" rel="nofollow">http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=2248&amp;content=product&amp;category=205</a> (sold for $2,657) or here <a href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=1177&amp;content=product&amp;category=138" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=1177&amp;content=product&amp;category=138" rel="nofollow">http://www.aukcjamonet.pl/archive.php?id=1177&amp;content=product&amp;category=138</a> (sold for $2,285).</p><p><br /></p><p>As you see, better condition copies of this type are pretty expensive <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The last thing is that you may find this ducats minted with two different (scarce and more common) eagle mintmark shapes. Both of them are genuine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The eagle mintmark was minted (instead of the Caduceus) in these coins to distinguish them from the Utrecht strikes. This is why we call them imitations. Russians minted similar dates without changes in design, because they wanted to make impression that these ducats were genuine Utrecht strikes. Therefore we call them forgeries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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