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Message:: [QUOTE="Dafydd, post: 26507186, member: 86815"]This is a coin from a seldom-encountered shipwreck. We never find its coins in the fantastic condition of those recovered from well-known wrecks like the Vliegenthart, Hollandia, or De Liefde. Compare to [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]'s beautiful examples from the Vliegenthart. [ATTACH=full]1689668[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1689669[/ATTACH] UNITED PROVINCES, FRIESLAND, escalin (snaphaanschelling), 1623. D/ Shield on a fleur-de-lis cross. R/ Galloping rider left, brandishing his saber. Verk. 128.2; Delm. 800. 5.49 g. With certificate. From the wreck of the Lastdrager, a flute ship of the French East India Company (VOC) that sank on March 2, 1653, off the Shetland Islands while sailing around Scotland to Batavia. The wreck was found in 1972 by Robert Sténuit northeast of the island of Yell. It was subsequently excavated by the GRASP team, who recovered 500 silver coins, most of them in very poor condition.Ex Jean Elsen 2025. I am trying to assemble a collection of at least one coin from every readily available shipwreck. I have managed to acquire many duplicates from the Association, Hollandia, Liefde and a few others. Hopefully I will be able to trade them in the future. I managed to do this, not by choice, buy by placing multiple "low ball" bids in a number of auctions hoping to acquire one but sometimes being unusually successful compared to my same strategy with Ancients which doesn't work very often.[/QUOTE]