scheepjesschelling - Boats are serious business for coins

gashmios

It is kind of interesting because for Dutch coins, the quality of the coins was needed for their international trade - so it is the backbone of their coinage.

I picked this one up from Schulman. The guys pointed out it had a great grade

A coin minted at the same time of the Boston Tea Party with original lust is worth a look see...

gashmios

http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/2026_jan_nyinc/P1011122.JPG?width=2400

gashmios

This boat was a Stacks Bowers auction win and came from China

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/scheepjesschelling.html

They tapped the famed Daniel Drappentier, from the court of Willem, Prince of Orange-Nassau, and they leveraged the new machine coinage that was first introduced to the Dutch mint in 1670. The silver content was standardized at 583/1000 and the coin was largely distributed for East Indian trade. The coin was originally not even legal tender in the Republic. In fact, shillings were largely suppressed domestically in the Republic and the coinwas largely used by the VOC in eastern trade.

Different providences minted this coin each with their own coat of arms on the reverse of the coin. The mintage type and years are as follows:

Holland 1670-1778
West Friesland 1673-1771
Zeeland 1750-1793
Utrecht 1700-1794
Gelderland 1705-1734
Friesland 1711 

Different providences minted different proverbs on the coins. Zeeland had the Latin phrase, ITA RELIGQUENDA UT ACCEPTA, which translates roughly to "thus relinquished whilst accepted", a rather odd motto. Others used the motto "VIGILATE DEO CONFIDENTES" which translated to roughly, "Viglantly Confiding in God", somewhat similar to our familiar, "In God We Trust". Other proverbs crop up in examples to include "CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCVNT", "In Harmony Business, Small things grow?", and of course the famous Dutch proverb "DEVS FORTITVDO ET SPES NOSTRA.: which translates to God is our strength and our hope.

Sapyx

@mrbrklyn said:
...Zeeland had the Latin phrase, ITA RELIGQUENDA UT ACCEPTA, which translates roughly to "thus relinquished whilst accepted", a rather odd motto...

You've made a slight typo, which may be twisting your translation effort. The motto is "ITA RELINQUENDA UT ACCEPTA", which translates to "Leave it as you received it" or "It should be left as it's been received". It is not the official motto of Zeeland, which is the more appropriate "LUCTOR ET EMERGO" found on their smaller denominations, meaning "I struggle and I rise above", a fitting motto for a province that's constantly at war with the ocean itself.

As for the reasoning behind putting that motto there on the scheepjesschelling, I can only assume is the Zeeland government begging you to leave the coin alone and not clip it, melt it down or otherwise vandalize it.

A plea which seems to have worked for these two specific specimens, at least, as they seem to have been left mostly alone for over 250 years. Very nice!

gashmios

the fields of the 66 are almost proof like ... thanks for the edit!