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Netherlands Gold Ducats

Category:  World Coins
Owner:  deposito
Last Modified:  1/31/2024
Set Description
Dutch gold trade coins traveled the world.

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Gold ducats of the Netherlands. 1586 to the present.

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View Coin 1586 Zeeland NETHERLANDS - TO 1600 DUCAT 1586 Netherland ZEELAND NGC MS 62 This is the first year these uniform-weight and purity standing-knight style ducats started getting struck by the newly declared-independent United Provinces of the Netherlands. They declared independence from Spain in 1579. These ducats are still being minted today in approximately the same weight and purity of gold. There is an easily obtainable 1986 ducat from the Dutch Mint celebrating 400 years of the series.

" LOW COUNTRIES, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (Dutch Republic). Utrecht. 1581-1795. AV Dukaat "
View Coin 1587 Holland NETHERLANDS - TO 1600 DUCAT 1587 Netherland HOLLAND NGC AU Details Too bad it is filed. 1586 is considered the start date for this series that is still getting struck today.

NGC does not let me see their population reports on Holland or other provinces before 1601. So, I don't know how many of this date have been graded from any province.

At PCGS, no Holland 1587s are certified.
PCGS has graded a 1587 Gelderland ducat in AU55, and it looks good, but, I still think the face on my coin is more clear!
https://www.pcgs.com/valueview/gelderland-1492-1795/1587-ducat/5987?sn=570922&h=pop

There is one Utrecht 1587 in AU53.
https://www.pcgs.com/valueview/utrecht-1578-1795/1587-ducat-fr-284/5998?sn=676804&h=pop
This one looks better.
PCGS also graded a West Friesland 1587 in AU53, which is a different, more "Hungarian, style." It is kind of wavy and worn looking compared to this coin, in my opinion.

There is, and have been, some slightly more ragged looking 1587s on MA-SHOPS in the last couple years.
View Coin 1588 Holland NETHERLANDS - TO 1600 DUCAT 1588 Netherland HOLLAND (3.50g) NGC AU 55 This is the year of the Spanish Armada. Its purpose was to reinstate Catholicism in England, end support for the Dutch Republic, and prevent attacks by English and Dutch privateers against Spanish interests in the Americas. Like the English, the Dutch were Protestant.

This is the only one of these at NGC. There is only one other Holland ducat of this date appearing on ACSearch, sold at Roma Numismatics, with a wavy flan.
View Coin 1595 Zeeland NETHERLANDS - TO 1600 DUCAT 1595 Netherland ZEELAND NGC AU 55 From Henzen in 2023. I have had a hard time getting a nice looking 1590's classic ducat.
View Coin 1607 Overyssel NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1607 Netherland OVERYSSEL NGC MS 62 There is one other 1607 of this province graded at NGC, as MS61, and none at PCGS in any condition. This coin is almost perfectly centered, the strike is strong all around, and most importantly to me, the face and helmet detail is fine, and the sword is sharp. This is my favorite Dutch ducat so far.

1607 was the year Jamestown was founded in present-day Virginia, the first English permanent settlement in North America. Not 20 years later, the Dutch would found New Amsterdam, which would become New York City.

NGC has graded one West Friesland 1607 ducat at AU50, one Holland 1607 ducat at AU55, and one of Gelderland from 1607 at MS61, AU58, 55, 53, and 50. NGC has graded a lot of Utrecht 1607 ducats, the finest at MS60.
PCGS has graded one 1607 ducat of Gelderland at AU50.
PCGS has graded one Utrecht 1607 ducat at AU55, and I have seen a few VF to XF raw examples on Ebay or MA-Shops.

View Coin 1608 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1608 Netherland HOLLAND NGC AU 58 There are no ducats of any province graded over AU58 for 1608. Only Gelderland has ducats of 1608 struck up to AU58. This is the only Holland ducat of 1608 in AU58. The left-side edge crimp was insufficient to get a notation from NGC.

SOLD
View Coin 1612 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1612 Netherland UTRECHT (3.50g) NGC MS 61 Rated Double R! I bought this coin on Ebay in 2010 raw, and it sat in a dish with other gold coins for 8 years. Then I sent it into NGC in 2017. This is tied with one other example graded MS61 at NGC. None are graded at PCGS.

NGC has graded one 1612 West Friesland ducat at AU50, one Holland 1612 ducat in AU55, one Overyssl 1612 ducat in MS61, one Friesland ducat at MS61 and a handful in lower grades. NGC has also graded a 1612 Gelderland ducat in AU58.
PCGS has graded one 1612 Friesland ducat at AU55.

This coin is from the early days of Dutch exploration and colonization in North America, the Caribbean, South East Asia, and South America.

Delmonte 963 | Verkade 98.3 | HNPM.24 | CNM.2.43.44
van der Wiel 24 (JMP.1975-1977) | Friedberg 284 RR
View Coin 1622 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1622 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 62 1622 was the year that the Spanish Treasure Fleet including the famous Atocha ship was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Florida, yielding lots of gold and silver coins for collectors in the 20th century. Dutch ships were wrecked off the coast of Australia this year also.

This is a rare date, even a rare decade, for Netherlands ducats. This is one of only two NGC graded Netherlands ducats from any mint from any year of the 1620's, although there is one from 1629 from Friesland designated XF Details. PCGS has graded two Holland ducats VF30 and AU50 from 1622, and none from any other provincial mint. However, I cannot see the PCGS "details grades" coins on their population report, and I know there is one 1622 Utrecht ducat "AU Details Tooled" for sale on Ebay for ... $5,000. It is a disheveled looking coin.

I did find one other of this same issue, from West Friesland, 1622, in worse condition raw on coin archives from a Kunker auction in 2019. No others.

3.49 grams, 22mm diameter.

This was lucky to come out problem-free and mint state; when I bought it raw I figured it would come out XF and with problems. But, this is just how it was struck apparently.

This coin comes from the "100+ year old collection of Hans Erb from Chur Switzerland." According to the dealer. Hans Erb was an author of many books about the cultural history of old Zurich. The dealer who sold me this coin, "World Coin Shop" in Switzerland, was nice enough to provide me with some photos of the original tags and 1899 postmarked envelope from London to "Robert Furrer" in Switzerland. The address on the envelope just says "Zugerstrasse Horgen, Switzerland, Near Zurich"! No street number, no postal code. I guess everyone knew each other back then.
View Coin 1634 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1634 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 62
View Coin 1635 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1635 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 61 At this auction in Poland I woke up in time to catch the three ducats I'd been watching for almost two months. I could not bear to bid up the 1603 Kampen Ducat which sold for a little less than this, and then, the 1694 Holland ducat got away from me at more than $3,000. Netherlands ducats from the 1680's and 1690's are pretty scarce, especially in good condition, so that was sad.

NGC and PCGS have each certified one ducat from 1635, from the Gelderland mint, not West Friesland, both in MS62.
Neither have certified any other ducats from 1635 from any mint.

View Coin 1636 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1636 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 62 SOLD 11-2022
View Coin 1637 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1637 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 63 Won at an auction in Poland, and reunited with the 1634, 35, 36, and 1642 West Friesland ducats in this collection after hundreds of years away from the mint. I surmise all were engraved by the same guy, Jacob Utenwael (Uyttewaal), active through the 1630s and 40s at the West Friesland mint.

You can see a nice run of 1630s West Friesland ducats in this "Nationalized" collection of the Netherlands here:
https://data.collectienederland.nl/search/?page=2&q=dukaat


NGC has graded one 1637 Holland ducat at AU50 and a Gelderland at MS62. The Gelderland one sold at a Schulman auction June 17, 2021 and I was outbid by about 500 Euros. Those two coins, and this one, are all there are for 1637 ducats of any province at NGC, including in details grades

PCGS has graded an MS62 and MS61 of West Friesland in 1637, and none of any other province of 1637.
View Coin 1638 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1638 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC UNC Details
View Coin 1642 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1642 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 63 Now reunited with the 1637 West Friesland ducat after hundreds of years away from the mint. I believe both were engraved by the same guy, Jacob Utenwael (Uyttewaal), active through the 1630s and 40s at the West Friesland mint.

NGC has graded one other West Friesland ducat of 1642 at MS61, then this one.
NGC has graded one 1642 from Holland in MS61.

There are no examples of this year for West Friesland graded at PCGS
PCGS has graded one 1642 Utrecht ducat at AU58, and no other Netherlands ducats of 1642.


View Coin 1645 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1645 Netherland UTRECHT Grain Collection NGC MS 61 This coin is 300 years older than my dad. It is the penultimate year of the work of the die sinker Van Vloock, and only the second of the long–time mintmaster Johan Gerobulus. The ducats minted with Van Vloock dies are distinguished by the carelessness and clumsiness of details and numerous typographical errors. Some say he was drunk on the job. The presented specimen confirms this thesis. There are errors in punctuation on the coin – an extra dot in the TRA on the obverse, careless planning of the arrangement of the letters in the legend – the letter S in the word RES is punched under the knight's foot, as well as errors in writing the legend on the reverse – BELGA.A instead of BELG.AD. Although the coin does not fascinate with its beauty in such an obvious way as, for example, the ducats minted in Utrecht two years later, it is a great testimony to the short, but extremely interesting stage of the mint's activity. Later Utrecht ducats – although still minted by hand – are all visually homogeneous.

Mint Master: Johan Gerobulus
Die Engraver: Frederick van Vloock
CONCORDIA (.) RES . P – ARVÆ . CRES . TR . A (herb)
MO . ORDI / PROVIN / FOEDER / BELGA . A / LEGEM .
View Coin 1648 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1648 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 61 I have had raw 1612,1648 and 1649 Utrecht ducats since 2009. I got them after I read (listened to) a book called "A Splendid Trade" that year.

In 2015 I finally registered for Heritage, and I won this coin. It was the first coin I bought anywhere but Ebay. Also the first coin I bought "slabbed." I ended up getting the 1612 and 1649 slabbed myself and they can be found in this collection. The 1648 was kind of ragged looking, but struck well, and I sold it to someone on Ebay in 2020.

This is a fairly common date, especially for the 1600's. This is the perfect "entry level" mint state 1600's ducat. This is the date of the Peace of Westphalia which brought to a close the 30 years war. That was the treaty which brought to a close the war for independence of the northern provinces of the Netherlands against Hapsburg Spain.

Grade is relevant but does not control the appeal of these hand struck coins. Stacks in February, 2022 has an AU55 example of this same coin selling, but that coin is better centered and less wavy than this MS61 example here.

NGC has graded 18 of these; 1 in MS63, 4 in MS62 and 3 (including this one) in MS61. The rest are AU
PCGS has only graded 1 of these in MS62, and 7 in AU.
View Coin 1649 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1649 Netherland UTRECHT (3.49g) NGC AU 58 A raw coin purchased from Ebay, which sat in a dish with other gold coins for 6-7 years before I sent it to NGC.
This is a common date, compared to other dates in the 1600s for Netherlands Ducats.

11 graded finer at NGC and PCGS

NGC has graded 19 of these; 1 in MS63, 4 in MS62, and 4 in MS61. There are 2 others in AU58 besides this one, then 7 more in AU50-55.
PCGS has graded one Utrecht 1649 ducat in MS62 and one in MS60.
View Coin 1649 Zwolle NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1649 Netherland ZWOLLE (3.48g) NGC MS 63 Lone second highest graded example of this ducat from the Zwolle mint of 1649 at NGC, of 8 total. I had an overall better-produced example of the same coin in MS-62 that I am replacing with this coin because this coin has a fully-rendered and struck face while the MS-62 example had a blank face. It was better in that the flan was flatter and the whole of both rings fit on the flan along with all the letters fully struck. There seems to be more luster on the MS-62 also, so, I am not sure about the switch yet.
View Coin 1650 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1650 Netherland UTRECHT NGC UNC Details SOLD
View Coin 1650 West Friesland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1650 Netherland W.FRIESLAND NGC MS 65 Under Diederik van Romondt, mintmaster. The knight on the obverse of this coin has an easily seen grin.

I had been making offers through Heritage to the owner of a really nice MS61 Zwolle 1650 ducat. They were always refused. Then, (1) this one became available to bid on and (2) this one has the best and cleanest (least wrinkled or wavy or bent) detail of all of them that I have seen pictures of.

This coin is the finest West Friesland 1650 ducat graded at NGC or PCGS; none are graded at PCGS but there are a bunch graded in Mint State at NGC, with this being the only MS65.

Examples in MS62, AU58 and AU55 appeared in this Goldberg Auction from 2013 at http://images.goldbergauctions.com/php/chap_auc.php?site=1&lang=1&sale=72&chapter=92&page=8

NGC has only graded two ducats of all provinces of the Netherlands from all of the 1600's at MS65; the other is also of West Friesland, dated 1652. However, it does not look as good as this coin, in my opinion, because the face has no detail and is just blank. It sold in 2015 at a Heritage Auction and can be seen here: https://coins.ha.com/itm/netherlands/world-coins/netherlands-west-friesland-provincial-gold-ducat-1652-ms65-ngc-/a/3038-35917.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515
View Coin 1652 Kampen NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1652 Netherland KAMPEN NGC MS 62 I bid on this coin at a Heritage Auction in January, 2015, and the page for that auction still shows that my maximum bid was outbid by $25. Now I just won it more than four and a half years later, at another Heritage Auction, for exactly my former maximum bid.

Is it a good sign that almost five years later, the coins I collect are dropping in value? No. But this is consistent with most decisions I make about where to put money.

I now have had both of the two NGC certified 1652 Kampen ducats, the MS61 one, and this one. The MS61 one has a weird dark wrinkle through it, and I sold it to a guy in Taiwan. I also have a Zwolle 1652 ducat.

There is only one of these certified at PCGS, also in MS62, like this coin. I do not know what it looks like.
View Coin 1652 Zwolle NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1652 Netherland ZWOLLE NGC MS 63 This is the only 1652 ducat of Zwolle certified in any grade by either NGC or PCGS. There are several other ducats of 1652 from other provinces in very nice condition. The face here bears full detail and a stern expression.

In this auction, which was hosted by some kind of cooperation between Heritage and MPO in the Netherlands, there were a handful of very rare ducats I was unable to win. One of those was the 1634 Deventer, the only ducat of that mint certified by either NGC or PCGS in any year or condition.
View Coin 1653 Zwolle NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1653 Netherland ZWOLLE NGC MS 64 The only ducat of Zwolle for this date graded by PCGS or NGC, although NGC has slabbed a nice looking one with "AU Details, Surface Hairlines"

NGC has graded one West Friesland 1653 at MS62, one Gelderland at AU58, one Holland at AU58.

PCGS has graded one West Friesland 1653 at M61, and one Utrecht 2-Ducat at AU55. That's it.
View Coin 1658 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1658 Netherland UTRECHT NGC UNC Details SOLD and lost or confiscated by Ebay Global Shipping en route to a Chinese buyer in October, 2020

Too bad it is cleaned. It is the only uncirculated example certified by PCGS or NGC. It is centered and struck really well.

NGC has "graded" none, but certified this coin as "UNC DETAILS" and one other as "AU DETAILS."
At PCGS there is one AU55 Utrecht ducat of 1658 and none in any details grade.
View Coin 1661 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1661 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 61 This coin is one of just 4 mint-state graded Netherlands Ducats at NGC from the 1660's from any provincial mint. NGC has graded one other Utrecht 1661 ducat, in AU58, but that example has no face on it. I have seen it, as it sold at a Heritage auction in 2019. There is just one other 1661 Netherlands ducat at NGC in mint state, from Zwolle, in MS62.

1661 was a busy year. On January 6 “The Fifth Monarchists” lead by Thomas Venner unsuccessfully attempted to seize control of London; George Monck's regiment defeated them. At the end of that month the body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution. Cromwell’s head was sold at auctions through the 20th century. For reference, the great fire of London was in 1666, which was rumored to have been started by the Dutch. This is the time of Isaac Newton, the Royal Academy, and the Diary of Sam Pepys, and another outbreak of the plague.

In March of 1661, King Louis XIV of France, the “Sun King” started to rule independently.

In April of 1661, The Siege of Fort Zeelandia, Dutch strongpoint in Taiwan, by Chinese-Japanese warlord Koxinga began. Portugal and the Dutch Republic signed the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland (Dutch Brazil) was formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch.

The first modern bank notes were issued in Stockholm, Sweden, kicking off a long slow march from consistent specie to fabulously debased currency. 350 years later, and governments are actively competing to diminish the buying power of their national currencies.
View Coin 1674 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1674 Netherland UTRECHT Ex Stack's 1951 Lot 469 Ex. Clifford T. Weihman NGC MS 63 "First year of two year type with a paschal lamb between the knight's legs. A wonderful example with full relief and detail. Creamy lustrous surfaces throughout free of any wear or contact marks. The finest certified example. A RARELY offered type in an exquisite state of preservation." Ex: Stack's Sale of the Clifford T. Weihman Collection of Gold Coins of the World. October 18-20, 1951, Lot #469." This catalog from the 1951 sale is viewable here
https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/auctionlots?AucCoId=3&AuctionId=516334

The next-best graded example is in MS62, and can be viewed here:
https://coins.ha.com/itm/netherlands/utrecht-provincial-gold-ducat-1674-ms62-ngc-/a/3040-33117.s?ic16=ViewItem-BrowseTabs-Inventory-BuyNowFromOwner-ThisAuction-120115

I think it is inferior-looking. But more importantly, it doesn't have the lamb of peace. I have seen the MS61 graded example too, and it looks better than the MS62 example, and also has the lamb.

This type was struck in Utrecht steadily with minor stylistic changes from about 1587 to the 1730's without any significant design change. 1674 was a bad year for Utrecht, it was mostly destroyed in a storm on August 1. The City had been previously occupied and looted by French forces in 1672. 1674 was also the year of the Womens Petition against Coffee, or, the Coffee Revolt, in London.

1674 was the year Father Jacques Marquette, the first European settler in Chicago, explored the Chicago region and wintered in the area for the 1674-5 season. I bet it was cold.

This coin is from the Clifford T. Weihman Collection of Gold Coins of the World, sold off by Stacks in 1951. This collector had a lot of the U.S. gold coins from the E.H.R. Green Collection, and they in turn wound up in the collection of Josiah K. Lilly. "It is assumed that most or all of these coins would now be on display in the Lilly Collection in the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washingon, D.C."

Mr. Weihman was a vegetable oil importer in New York City. He was one of three collectors in the world who acquired a set of quarter eagles, half eagles, eagles and double eagles. According to one account:

"Col. E. H. R. Green was one of the richest men in America, being the son of the infamous Hetty Green, better known as 'The Witch of Wall Street.' He was a hoarder, and there were enough coins in his estate for two sets of quarter eagles, half eagles, and eagles. There were also numerous double eagles. Stack's [a company] reportedly acquired the coins from the estate slowly, over a period of years, circa 1943-1945.

The coins were sorted by Stack's into a 'number 1 set' and a 'number 2 set," with the number 1 set having the better pieces. Mr. Stack said the number 1 quarter eagle, half eagle, and eagle sets were photographed circa 1945-1946 by Stack's staff photographer, Sam Andre, who also worked for PIC magazine (a large format competitor to Life), and were made up into individual photo albums. Mr. Stack believes that three sets of the albums were made. One went to his father, Morton, and one to his uncle, Joseph. The third went to an American collector named Clifford T. Weihman. Mr. Stack said they had misplaced his father's set, his uncle's set was in the Stack's library, and the location of the third set was unknown. . . . Stack's had occasion to handl the Weihman coins again in 1953 or 1954, selling them to pharmaceutical magnate Josiah K. Lilly. It is assumed that most or all of these coins would now be on display in the Lilly Collection in the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washingon, D.C." See Lester, Carl N., Numismatic "Gumshoe:" On the Trail of King Farouk.
View Coin 1685 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 3.48 g DUCAT 1685 Netherland UTRECHT NGC AU 55 This coin is not great but it is tough to find anything from the 1680's. The head is blank and almost off the top of the coin, but all other details are very nice. There also is some kind of orange or toning issue between the back of the knight's head and his sword. NGC and PCGS have not certified any other Netherlands ducats from any mint from 1685.

A rosette is visible between the knight's legs, appearing (with slight changes) on ducats minted in Utrecht in the years 1679–1731 and 1735–1736. So this is the first of those that I have.
View Coin 1697 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1697 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 63 I picked this coin up raw from Munthandel Henzen in the Netherlands. He was not able to tell me more about where it came from other than that it was consigned by an owner who bought it at a coin fair "long ago."

A rosette is visible between the knight's legs, appearing (with slight changes) on ducats minted in Utrecht in the years 1679–1731 and 1735–1736. A ducat from a transitional period when some provinces (Holland, Zeeland) had already implemented the mechanization of minting coins in their mints, and others – including Utrecht – remained manual minting for many years thereafter.

Mintmaster: Johan van Romond
Stamp engraver: Pieter van Cuylenburgh

CONCORDIA RES–PAR–VÆ CRES . TRA – (coat of arms)
MO. ORD / PROVIN / FOEDER / BELG . AD/LEG. IMP.

This coin is pictured, in black and white, as the example on NGC's "Numismaster" "Krause Publications" webpage for the issue, but without any explanation of where that photo comes from. I have examined that photo carefully and determined that it is not just a black and white version of the photo used by the dealer who sold me the coin. When I inquired about where that picture was from, NGC told me it was "proprietary information."
See: https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/netherlands-utrecht-ducat-km-7-1-1600-1743-cuid-25707-duid-75206

This is now the highest-graded Netherlands Ducat from any provincial mint of the 1690s, all of which come from Utrecht, including one other from 1697 in AU53, a 1696 in AU53, a 1695 in XF45, and one 1692 in MS61. PCGS has only graded one Utrecht ducat from the 1690's, which is a 1694 in VF condition.

I was compelled to find and buy this coin after losing an auction in Poland for a 1694 Utrecht ducat that looked as good or better than this coin. That has apparently not been submitted for grading.
View Coin 1705 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1705 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 63 3.48 grams. As of September, 2023 there are no other 1705 ducats of any mint graded at NGC.

There is one UNC Details Overyssl ducat of 1705 in the NGC details census.
View Coin 1711 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1711 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 63 As a long-time devotee of 7 Eleven shops worldwide, this is a date I have had my eye on. Finally someone put it up on Ebay. I haven't seen any of this date this nice come to auction in the last five years that I have watched.

This breaks up a big gap in Dutch ducats in my collection from 1674 to 1729. Now I need something from the 1690's.

There is one of these graded MS64 at NGC and one other in MS63 at PCGS, and a few others in MS63 at NGC. I know some of those look as good as this coin, none have any more face detail on the knight. This is a somewhat common date.
View Coin 1717 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1717 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 62 Not a common date but there are already more than four of these graded just at NGC, with three in higher grades than this coin. This coin appears to have been clipped but at the mint in order to get it almost down to the right weight. It is
View Coin 1724 Utrecht Akerendam Wreck NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1724 Netherland UTRECHT Akerendam NGC MS 64 This coin along with more than 6,600 others like it were recovered from the Akerendam shipwreck (sunk March 8, 1725). There were also 14 rare Holland gold ducats dated 1715, one of which was auctioned with this particular common Utrecht ducat in my collection. Also, there were about 40 Utrecht ducats dated 1717 in the treasure.

There are 11 of these graded higher at NGC, and plenty in this grade MS-64.

Akerendam was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built in 1724.

On 19 January 1725, Akerendam left in convoy with two other ships, heading for Batavia (Jakarta in Indonesia - to trade the gold and silver for spices) with a crew of 200 people and 19 chests of gold and silver on board. They went up the long way, around the top of England, instead of down the English Channel like you'd expect.

Why were they way up by Norway? Because they were trying to avoid pirates in the Channel, and that's where the good winds catch ship and pull them fast down around to the bottom the Atlantic and shoot them right east past the Cape of Good Hope. That was the plan. But on 8 March 1725 Akerendam drifted in a snow storm and sank near the cliffs of Runde island (Norwegian west coast). Despite the fact that the ship was wrecked close to the shore there were no survivors.

In the morning of March 8th 1725 the inhabitants of the farm Goksøyr at Runde noticed that the storm had washed ashore part of the wreckage. After the county commissioner had examined the salvage, a public auction was held! Does anyone still have the catalog?

The rescue (of coins) continued through the summer and autumn in 1725, but when winter came it was hard to keep up the work. People at Runde continued to look for coins in rock cracks at the shore, but over the years the shipwreck was forgotten

Swedish and Norwegian sports divers rediscovered the wreck site in 1972. Although little remained of the ship, about 57,000 gold and silver coins were recovered. The 6,600 gold coins were mostly the rare Dutch gold ducats, minted in Utrecht in 1724; prior to this find only a handful of these ducats were known. Norway's largest coin treasure is also referred to as "the Runde Treasure".

The Norwegian share of the Runde treasure was divided between the Museum of Cultural History's Coin Cabinet and Bergen Maritime Museum. In January 2011, some of the coins from the Maritime Museum were transported back to the island for an exhibition at Runde Miljøsenter. The divers' portion of 75% of the treasure was auctioned in Switzerland in 1978.
View Coin 1729 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1729 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 64 Shipwreck treasure from the Treasure Ship Vliegenthart, sunk February 3, 1735 with all the 1729 dated Utrecht ducats aboard. Salvaged at the end of the 20th century.

On May 5, 1730, the Vliegenthart (Flying Heart) was launched as the newest addition to the impressive fleet of the Dutch East India Company. Like other ships in the fleet, the Vliegenthart was designed for the long and dangerous journey to the other side of the world. She was able to handle the extremely rough seas as she rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and the full set of sails allowed her to catch the favorable trade winds across the Indian Ocean. Due to the threat of attack, the Vliegenthart was heavily armed with 42 guns.

After being refitted over the winter months, the Vliegenthart left the Netherlands once again for the East Indies on February 3, 1735. On board were 167 seamen, 83 soldiers, and six passengers plus a small treasure hoard of gold and silver coins that would be used to trade for silk, spices, and precious gems in the East Indies. With a strong gale blowing as they left shore, first the Anna Catharina and then the Vliegenthart were driven onto a sandbar and severely damaged. The Vliegenthart slipped off the sandbar, but it already had gaping holes and quickly sank in 10 fathoms (60 feet) of water. All men on board were lost.

The Dutch East India Company immediately organized a salvage operation to recover the lost treasure from the Vliegenthart but only a few guns, some bottles of wine, and four silver coins were found. Visibility was only a few inches in the murky depths. In addition, the waters were too hazardous and the shifting sands too dangerous to risk continued salvage attempts, so the wreck was abandoned for almost 250 years.

In 1977, researchers discovered the secret map made by the Dutch East India Company that pinpointed the location of the wreck. For three years, divers battled near disasters in the treacherous seas but the following year, they finally discovered the wreck of the Vliegenthart. A team of expert divers and archaeologists spent over a decade carefully bringing the ships treasure of gold and silver coins to the surface.

The gold coins were stored in three chests, two of which remained completely intact through the years. They were the official trade coins to be used in the East Indies and were recorded in the ship's log.

The gold coins were the legendary Dutch Ducats. These coins were struck to help the Dutch East India Company establish trade markets in the East Indies and soon became one of the worlds most respected trade coins. Featuring a knight in armor on one side surrounded by the motto 'Through harmony small things increase' and an inscription on the other side which reads 'Gold money of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and their imperial law', the design remained unchanged from ruler to ruler. Some of the gold Ducats aboard the Vliegenthart were machine-made coins of the era, manufactured from hand-cut planchets on a screw press. Others, made by the ancient method of hand-hammering (like this one) have somewhat less detail in the stroke and are more erratic in shape as is typical of a hand made coin.All gold Ducats recovered from the Vliegenthart are dated 1729. They never entered circulation, and because gold does not corrode, they appear almost exactly the same as the day they were struck even after 250 years in sea water. Most gold Ducats and Silver Riders that arrived in the East Indies were eventually melted for their precious metal, and the few that escaped melting bear the tell-tale marks of having been in circulation for many years. The coins from the Vliegenthart, on the other hand, are rarely-seen coins that never circulated.
View Coin 1729 Holland Vliegenthart Wreck NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1729 Netherland HOLLAND Vliegenthart NGC MS 63 A little wavy but it was underwater for almost 250 years.

Shipwreck treasure from the Treasure Ship Vliegenthart, sunk February 3, 1735. Salvaged in 1981.

On May 5, 1730, the Vliegenthart (Flying Heart) was launched as the newest addition to the impressive fleet of the Dutch East India Company. Like other ships in the fleet, the Vliegenthart was designed for the long and dangerous journey to the other side of the world. She was able to handle the extremely rough seas as she rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and the full set of sails allowed her to catch the favorable trade winds across the Indian Ocean. Due to the threat of attack, the Vliegenthart was heavily armed with 42 guns.

After being refitted over the winter months, the Vliegenthart left the Netherlands once again for the East Indies on February 3, 1735. On board were 167 seamen, 83 soldiers, and six passengers plus a small treasure hoard of gold and silver coins that would be used to trade for silk, spices, and precious gems in the East Indies. With a strong gale blowing as they left shore, first the Anna Catharina and then the Vliegenthart were driven onto a sandbar and severely damaged. The Vliegenthart slipped off the sandbar, but it already had gaping holes and quickly sank in 10 fathoms (60 feet) of water. All men on board were lost.

The Dutch East India Company immediately organized a salvage operation to recover the lost treasure from the Vliegenthart but only a few guns, some bottles of wine, and four silver coins were found. Visibility was only a few inches in the murky depths. In addition, the waters were too hazardous and the shifting sands too dangerous to risk continued salvage attempts, so the wreck was abandoned for almost 250 years.

In 1977, researchers discovered the secret map made by the Dutch East India Company that pinpointed the location of the wreck. For three years, divers battled near disasters in the treacherous seas but the following year, they finally discovered the wreck of the Vliegenthart. A team of expert divers and archaeologists spent over a decade carefully bringing the ships treasure of gold and silver coins to the surface.

There were 2,000 gold coins were stored in three chests, two of which remained completely intact through the years. They were the official trade coins to be used in the East Indies and were recorded in the ship's log.

The gold coins were the legendary Dutch Ducats. These coins were struck to help the Dutch East India Company establish trade markets in the East Indies and soon became one of the worlds most respected trade coins. Featuring a knight in armor on one side surrounded by the motto 'Through harmony small things increase' and an inscription on the other side which reads 'Gold money of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and their imperial law', the design remained unchanged from ruler to ruler. Some of the gold Ducats aboard the Vliegenthart were machine-made coins of the era, manufactured from hand-cut planchets on a screw press. Others, made by the ancient method of hand-hammering (from Utrecht Mint) have somewhat less detail in the stroke and are more erratic in shape as is typical of a hand made coin. All gold Ducats recovered from the Vliegenthart are dated 1729. They never entered circulation, and because gold does not corrode, they appear almost exactly the same as the day they were struck even after 250 years in sea water. Most gold Ducats and Silver Riders that arrived in the East Indies were eventually melted for their precious metal, and the few that escaped melting bear the tell-tale marks of having been in circulation for many years. The coins from the Vliegenthart, on the other hand, are rarely-seen coins that never circulated.

Another remarkable discovery were lead containers holding tobacco, anchovies and cheese.

Obverse: CONCORDIA. RES - PAR. CRES. HOL., knight facing right, standing between split date, sword leaning against right shoulder, holding bundle of arrows

Reverse: MO: ORD / PROVIN. / FOEDER / BELG. AD / LEG. IMP., all within ornate square

View Coin 1743 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1743 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 63 1743 was a year in the middle of the War of Austrian Succession.
Toussaint Louverture the Haitian rebel leader, and Thomas Jefferson, were both born in 1743.
In 1743 the last of the Medici family died without an heir, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, was the daughter of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Anna Maria had been born despite her mother's efforts to induce a miscarriage by means of riding

A little rough around the edges. This ducat got sent to me from Australia.

1 graded higher at NGC, 9 others in MS63 there.
View Coin 1769 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1769 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 62 SOLD $800 Jan 22 2021

Year James Watt got his first steam engine patent in England
There are none reported graded higher at NGC, there is another one of these MS62.
PCGS reports one in MS62 and one in MS63
I got this coin on Ebay about 6 years before I sent it into NGC, and I noted it as bent. It was able to avoid the details grade.
View Coin 1770 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1770 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 62 Under mint master Wouter Buck.

For Holland, and any other mint, PCGS has no 1770 ducat in mint state.
NGC has this coin and one other graded MS62, and none other in mint state; AU58 is the next level down.
There are no 1770 ducats from any other mint graded by NGC.
View Coin 1776 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1776 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 62 Under mint master Wouter Buck.

PCGS and NGC both report one of this date graded MS63, and 10 or more each graded MS62 like this example. This is a popular date because of the Declaration of Independence.
View Coin 1780 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1780 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 62 Under mint master Wouter Buck.

Utrecht mint has two of this year in 1780 in MS62 at NGC. But for Holland mint, PCGS has one in MS61 and 1 in MS60. NGC has just this coin in MS62 and 5 more in MS61.
View Coin 1781 Holland NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1781 Netherland HOLLAND NGC MS 61 Under mint master Wouter Buck.

NGC has one other in MS61, five in MS62, and one in MS64.

View Coin 1803 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1803 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 62 A mintage of 2,089,000. From the Dutch overseas empire centered out of modern-day Jakarta Indonesia, known then as Batavia. KM-11.3 Fr.317

A coin from an interesting period of Utrecht coinage, in which creating the dies for coins were entrusted to two people – J.W. Marmé and H. de Meijer. The first of them worked in this position independently in the years 1763–1795, and the second – in the years 1795–1802. In the years 1802–1810 both die sinkers worked together, which can be seen in the quality of the designed dies. At the end of the obverse legend, there is a dot below the city arms.

Mint condition, with a lot of mint luster. Mint details, frosty look especially on the obverse. A deeply minted specimen.

I bought this coin on Ebay in a PCGS slab graded AU58. I broke it out and sent it to NGC who graded it MS62, where it is now tied with 3 others at NGC and one at PCGS.

Mintmaster: Gideon Jan Langerak du Marchie Sarvaas
Engraver of stamps: Johann Wilhelm Marmé and Hendrik de Meijer
CONCORDIA RES-PAR . CRES. TRA (coat of arms). –
MO:ORD:/PROVIN:/FOEDER:/BELG. AD/LEG. IMP.


View Coin 1814 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1814 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 62 SOLD to a dutch guy in Israel 3/2021.
Three including this one are graded MS62 at NGC, and there is an MS61 at PCGS. Mintage this year of 2,930,000.
View Coin 1816 Utrecht NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 DUCAT 1816 Netherland UTRECHT NGC MS 61 One of three graded at NGC; the lowest. There are two in MS-64.

16 Apr, 1951 Lot 253 Schulman Sale "Netherlands and Colonial Coins. Dr H D Mak van Waay, and J W C Milders"
View Coin 1841 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1841 (LILY) Netherland NGC MS 61
View Coin 1849 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1849 Netherland NGC MS 63 PCGS has one in MS63. NGC has 13 in MS63 including this one, and also 1 in MS66, 4 in MS65, and 4 in MS64. There is also a "reeded edge" issue of this year struck "off license" in St. Petersburg.
View Coin 1916 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1916 Netherland NGC MS 61 The 1917 ducat is easy to get. It's basically a bullion coin. But this is a tough date. NGC has certified no other examples, and PCGS has certified none. However, I did see one sell more recently at the June, 2021 AA Muntenveiling auction, hammer 1300 EUR. These coins maybe got lost or blown up in World War One, there was a large enough reported mintage of 116,997. Allegedly there are an unknown mintage of proofs this year. The mintage for the years around it are over 200,000 each, but, I have never seen a 1913 or 1914.

I have only seen one other example appear out there, raw, on MA Shops, and it is brush-cleaned. 1849 is the last common date until 1917, and, like this coin of 1916, there are only 1 or 2 examples of the smattering of dates available from 1849-1917 at NGC in any condition.

The Dutch were fighting back the Germans who already occupied Belgium and Luxembourg to the south.
View Coin 1917 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1917 Netherland NGC MS 62 Unfortunately I cannot find a good-looking example from 1916, which would have connected my Netherlands ducats collection to my Coins of 1916 collection. This is still struck in the midst of the Great War. There are 3 graded in MS62 including this one, and 5 graded higher.

The Netherlands was a neutral country, but experienced discomfort and hard circumstances. Bread and other food was rationed and soup kitchens sprang up. A bread ration was established in January 1917. On 28 June 1917, there was a shortage of potatoes. It became known in the neighborhoods of Amsterdam that there was a ship with potatoes in the Prinsengracht, but these were for the army. In order to feed their families, the working women of the Eastern Islands and the Czar Peter Neighborhood plundered the ship.

In the first week of July of that year, the unrest grew and the workers themselves also saw action. Warehouses and shops were looted. The police were powerless and the army acted. The revolt culminated in a battle on 5 July 1917, in which soldiers opened fire on a crowd that had gathered at the Haarlemmerplein. The revolt was beaten. There were nine dead and 114 people wounded.
View Coin 1927 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1927 Netherland NGC MS 64
View Coin 1937 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1937 Netherland NGC MS 62
View Coin 1960 Netherlands NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE DUCAT 1960 Netherland NGC PL 68 Utrecht mint, KM190.1. AGW 0.1104 oz. A new type of ducat, minted according to the pattern from 1817. No dot after CRESCUNT. At the end of the obverse legend, a fish – the privy mark of a mintmaster, J.W.A. van Hengel.

Mintage of 3,605.

NGC when I enter this into their system says "PL 68" but the slab does not say PL anywhere, just MS 68.

This is the lone highest graded "MS" example so far at PCGS and NGC. Nine total graded at both places.
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