New purchase: Nijmegen (Netherlands) 1563 Daalder
Dennis88
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Whenever I go to coin shows and tell myself not to buy anything to throw in a box that I call "my collection" I run into some good deal or awesome coin and can't pass it up. So here is the Long Beach-February 2013 coin that fits into that category.
It was struck in Nijmegen, a city in the province where I'm originally from, dated 1563. What's so cool about this coin is that it is one of the very, very few (like there might be a few others but you hardly ever see them) coins of this time period with the legends in Dutch instead of Latin. I had been looking for one for awhile but they tend to go for $600-800 or more in Europe. Managed to pick this one up for a lot less than that (and immediately cracked it out of a PCGS XF details -cleaning holder that only listed the denomination, no country, state or city). It's a little lighter in hand and needs some aging but after that it should easily get graded (at least at NGC).
Not sure if I want to keep it or sell it, but for now I still wanted to share with you guys.
Dennis
It was struck in Nijmegen, a city in the province where I'm originally from, dated 1563. What's so cool about this coin is that it is one of the very, very few (like there might be a few others but you hardly ever see them) coins of this time period with the legends in Dutch instead of Latin. I had been looking for one for awhile but they tend to go for $600-800 or more in Europe. Managed to pick this one up for a lot less than that (and immediately cracked it out of a PCGS XF details -cleaning holder that only listed the denomination, no country, state or city). It's a little lighter in hand and needs some aging but after that it should easily get graded (at least at NGC).
Not sure if I want to keep it or sell it, but for now I still wanted to share with you guys.
Dennis
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PS- whenever I read "Nijmegen", war movies about D-Day and Operation Market Garden come to mind, rather than 16th century crowns. That's the neat thing about Europe, though, with its multilayered history. One year you've got the Romans battling the Gauls, then you've got people in colorful hosiery or lace collars striking cool coins like this, then you've got WW2 paratroopers in the sky, with all sorts of stuff in between.
View of Nijmegen, middle of the 16th century. This is what the city must have looked like when my coin was struck...Oh the stories it could tell:
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