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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26217309, member: 86815&quot;]<b>Deep diving into the VOC vessel Hollandia.</b></p><p>I have a number of coins recovered from the Hollandia. They can be found in remarkably good condition.&nbsp; These are two of them. The first is a &quot;Silver Rider&quot; Dutch Ducaton and the second is a Spanish Mexican 8 Reales &quot;Pillar Dollar&quot;.</p><p>The 8 Reales is pedigreed to the Hollandia on the NGC registry but they did not add the attribution to their label although it was requested.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1674288[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1674289[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1674306[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1674307[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://blob:https://www.cointalk.com/4ca4da77-eaef-4626-89b5-424275685d3c" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A joy of being a coin collector and bibliophile is that you read before and after you buy a coin and often this results in fascinating research of subjects you many not have otherwise encountered.</p><p>If you have a coin recovered from the Hollandia, or in fact any Dutch VOC vessel or minted by the VOC this is a great book although the numismatic content is completely outweighed by everything else.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1674299[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><font size="4">Hollandia Compendium: A Contribution to the History, Archeology, Classification and Lexicography of a 150 ft. Dutch East Indiaman (1740-1750)</font></b></p><p>This is the description of the book I&#039;ve copied from Amazon.</p><p><i>The wreck of the Dutch East India Hollandia, which sank off the coast of Southwest England in 1743, is one of the most coherent and exhaustive sources of information about the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), 1602-1795. A collection of artifacts from the Hollandia, on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, has drawn increasing interest to the activities of the Company&#039;s exceptional international enterprise - particularly with regard to production, trade, and transport. The VOC succeeded in maintaining an almost worldwide trade and transport network for nearly two centuries. Artifacts from ships such as the Hollandia provide clues to the inter workings of the Company as a whole. The Hollandia Compendium is an interplay between historical and archaeological data, thus providing an elaborate and detailed visualisation of the VOC and its functions as a trading company. The present study is a catalogue of objects originating from the wreck. It is a lexicon of administrative usage of the VOC. Additionally included are discussions of the significance of VOC Ships to the development of a historical-archaeological discipline for further investigation of these wrecks, and a survey of historical sources, both material and written for information on ships of the VOC in the mid-18th century.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>As the precis indicates this is more than an inventory of the artefacts recovered it gives a real insight into life and trade of the time. There are hundreds of line drawings of the objects alongside their descriptions including tools for all types of trades, medicines , weapons, utensils even bee hives!</p><p>It&#039;s a huge book , not quite matching the size of ERIC II but getting there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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