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Auction: 9017 - Ancient, British & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 621

x Dutch East Indies, VOC, 12 Stuivers, 5.57g, Batavia, 1645, upright sword over laurel wreath within inner circle comprising rope border, inscription around with floriate scrolls above and below bataviae anno 1645, rev. monogram of United East India Company, 12.st above, all within rope border inner circle, floriate scrolls in outer border (Scholten 14; Bucknill 41, KM.32), sea water damage, without tooling and cast condition, good fine, extremely rare, Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance Five other examples of the Quarter Crown have been noted. With the exception of this coin, all others are in Dutch public collections.

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