]I would like to share a few pics of a couple of my latest gold acquisitions !! Hopefully you will find it interesting ... I consider both "classic" designs !!! 1700 IMF German States - Nurnberg Ducat Klippe 1787 Netherlands - Utrecht Ducat NGC MS-61 OBV: Legend around standing knight in full armor holding a sword and a sheaf of arrows / REV: Legend on tablet Mintage: ? References: KM# NA / Fr.285 / Delmonte #965 - Rarity Scale = R.3 (Extremely Rare) Notes: - New "nouveau" Type Design. -Issued as trade coinage by Netherlands for use in their East Indies colony and issued them without change of type (except for date) from 1814 until 1938. -Also referred to as a "ducat au chevalier" (Delmonte). -1787 was the year the US Constitution was signed/enacted
Who says they can't put a square peg in a round hole Gorgeous coins :eat: BTW - you figure out what the klippe legends say yet ?
LOL !! - if I knew I would have told ya already It's been so many years since I studied latin that I'm lucky to be able to read the easy words. It's the last one that I can't get - NORIDIEFRGENS ??? I'm thinking they left out some stops in order to save space. Thinking it should read - N OR IDIE FR GENS - but even at that, the possibilities are endless.
