The Teyler Museum and its coins

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  1. cplradar

    cplradar Talmud Chuchum

    https://www.teylersmuseum.nl/en/collection/coins-and-medals-overview

    I was going to post this under the Netherlands world coins section, but I decided this might be a better section since it is not specifically about Nethland coins.

    I once ran to Harlem from Amsterdam when traveling, in order to see the Frans Halls Museum. On the way, never being to Harlem before, I saw pamphlets on the Teyler Museum but ignored it because it seems to be of no interest. I couldn't have been wrong. The museum is uniquely fascinating, historical, and has superb artifacts, which include a nice collection of coins!

    The core collection was donated by Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, a Mennonite businessman who is worthy of discussion in of itself.

    The museum also sports an Archaeopteryx specimen, which in of itself makes it a must go to stop for one an all. But its coins are spectacular!

    Pieter Teyler's personal coin had 1,623 coins that anchor the collection.

    https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.n...kcze9aI5Yg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

    https://www.google.com/books/editio...n_Haarlem_and_Its_B/2KUPEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0



    https://www.worldcat.org/title/high...ory-collections-and-buildings/oclc/1040908483

    https://goldducats.com/collections/teylers-museum-numismatic-cabinet/

     
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  3. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Thanks for sharing. :)
     
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  4. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I'm glad to hear the museum is open again, it was closed for a long time, and long before 2020. I've never been there myself but a few years ago I did help write an article specifically about Teyler's and the Netherlands gold ducats in their collection. The article was quite involved and quite lengthy and it was about tests done on the coins, tests that had never been done before by anyone on a collection so extensive.

    What the museum did was to take all of the Netherlands gold ducats they had and test them, using non invasive modern equipment and methods, to see if the coins did indeed measure to the standards for purity (.986 fineness) and weight established centuries ago, and continues to this day. The standards that made the Netherlands gold ducat as famous as it is and always was. And the most widely and readily accepted coin in the world.

    Short and sweet every single coin did measure up, even those minted from day one in 1586, every coin met the standards that made the Netherlands the trade capital of the world for centuries.
     
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  5. charley

    charley Well-Known Member

    ....and the Netherlands did such a good job with that tulips thing.....
     
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  6. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    And yet, @GDJMSP you didn't give us a pointer to the article... You can't just throw random interesting stuff out there like it's spaghetti tossed at the wall...
     
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  7. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    Actually, they just grew them, weren't most of the mad dogs buying them English?
     
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  8. charley

    charley Well-Known Member

    Yes, my point, BUT the entire episode is misunderstood, and the plague thing and recovery didn't make them shy about wampum schemes and keeping up that good old Hapsburg the yellow stuff belongs to me spirit.

    It is not about being the trade capitol, it is how. Should have stuck with cloth.

    That whole Dutch East India thing still leaves a funny taste on the world.

    (insert smiley thingy)

    ATTICA ATTICA!!
     
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  9. charley

    charley Well-Known Member

    I am also a fan of humblebrag and incomplete history about stuff.
     
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  10. cplradar

    cplradar Talmud Chuchum


    that is very cool
     
    cplradar, Sep 19, 2021
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  11. cplradar

    cplradar Talmud Chuchum

    cplradar, Sep 20, 2021
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  12. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    If you mean a link to the article, there isn't one. It was published in the Dutch Numismatic Society annual yearbook a few years ago. And to the best of my knowledge that's the only place once could ever find it.
     
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  13. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

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  14. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    And as your first link tells you, the last 3 editions (2018 is the one you'd need) cannot be downloaded. But the link does list the article.
     
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  15. cplradar

    cplradar Talmud Chuchum


    do you have copyright?
     
    cplradar, Sep 20, 2021
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  16. Burton Strauss III

    Burton Strauss III Brother can you spare a trime? Supporter

    Only 15 Euros
     
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  17. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    No, the copyright belongs to Dariusz Jasek.
     
    GDJMSP, Sep 21, 2021
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  18. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    I'm not sure on this but I think you have to be a member of the society to purchase from them. That said it should be easy to contact them and ask.
     
    GDJMSP, Sep 21, 2021
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  19. cplradar

    cplradar Talmud Chuchum


    ANd here I thought you were Dariusz
     
    cplradar, Sep 29, 2021
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  20. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    No, I was his teacher and mentor. And when we wrote all the articles and book, I was his editor - which means I took all his thoughts and ideas, added my own thoughts and ideas, and put them into conversational English - because English is not his native language.
     
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  21. Cheech9712

    Cheech9712 Every thing is a guess

    Doug is interesting. He needs to continue typing
     
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