Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dnas, post: 7653503, member: 93707&quot;]This is an interesting coin!!!!</p><p>It&#039;s a Netherlands Overijssel 1733 ducaton. It is actually a shipwreck coin from the ship Vliegent Hart(&quot;Flying Deer&quot;), a Dutch East Indies vessel, which sank on 3rd February 1735. It had just departed Rammekens for the East Indies when the deadly combination of a northeast gale, a spring tide and pilot error sent her into a sand bank behind her sister-ship Anna Catharina. The latter ship broke apart in the storm while the Vliegent Hart, damaged and firing her cannons in distress, slipped off the bank and sank in 10 fathoms(~20m of water), with all hands. the wreck was discovered in 1981, and eventually 3 chests of Mexican Silver and Dutch gold were recovered. (67,000 pieces). There were also many 8 Real Spanish cobbs.</p><p>These ducatons were actually contraband carried by the crew, to use in the East Indies for their own profit. I&#039;m not sure how many Ducatons there were, but the coins seem to have been in various states of corrosion. this one has some corrosion along one edge.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315808[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315809[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1315810[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Strangely enough, I picked this up in a well known annual Japanese antique market in Tokyo. I don&#039;t think the vendor knew what it was, as he had a lot of other goods, along with a mixed collection of coins. The Japanese coins were about the expected price, but the world coins were all cheap. The hinge on the case was broken, so it was a discounted price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cost was 4000yen, or around $36 / 30 EUR</p><p><br /></p><p>Link to another example:</p><p><a href="https://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/File:Overijssel_Sed21-565.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/File:Overijssel_Sed21-565.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinfactswiki.com/wiki/File:Overijssel_Sed21-565.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in