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Auction: 9017 - Ancient, British & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 619

x Dutch East Indies, VOC, Batavia, 48 Stuivers, 23.29g, 1645, Batavia, upright sword over laurel wreath within inner circle comprising rope border, inscription around with floriate scrolls above and below batavia anno 1645, rev. monogram of United East India Company, .48.st. above, countermark initial c to right of monogram, old inked number 34 below, all within rope border inner circle, floriate scrolls in outer border (Scholten 12; Bucknill 39, KM.34), without tooling and in as cast condition with limited circulation, very fine for the issue, extremely rare Estimate £ 25,000-30,000 provenance Bt. 1964, ex. Bataviaasch Genootschap Ten other examples of the 1645 Crown are known. Of these four are in public collections, three in private collections and three others noted in the last century are now of unknown whereabouts. This coin is an additional example. The last example of this coin sold at a auction was that in the Ira and Larry Goldberg Millennia Collection sale, May 2008, which realised $115,000 (NGC graded EF-45). This was noted as being from the same original provenance as this example.

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