Beschreibung
Erhaltung: ss | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: Delmonte 842 | Verkade 226.2 | HNPM.34 | CNM.2.43.59 | Davenport 8854
Gewicht: 26,87 g
Durchmesser: 41,00 mm
gewicht 26,87gr. | zilver Ø 41mm.
muntmeester Hendrik Hendriksz. van Domselaar
Geslagen op Hollandse muntvoet met muntteken
roos en met de tekst: xMOxNOxORDTRAxVAxHOL.
Het jaartal 1599 is gewijzigd uit 1598. Zeldzaam.
The year 1599 has been changed from 1598. Rare. The lion dollar circulated throughout the Middle East and was imitated in several German and Italian cities. It was also popular in the Dutch East Indies as well as in the Dutch New Netherlands Colony (New York). The lion dollar also circulated throughout the English colonies during the Seventeenth and early Eighteenth centuries. Examples circulating in the colonies were usually fairly well worn so that the design was not fully distinguishable, thus they were sometimes referred to as dog dollars. Larger Dutch silver coins as the ducatoon and the rix dollar (rijksdaalder) were also used in the colonies but neither of these coins had such a wide circulation or long lasting influence as the lion dollar. In Maryland the lion dollar was mentioned as the most important circulating coin in documents of 1701 and 1708, with its value stated as 4s6d. It is reported by Felt (p. 250) that a deposition was taken in Boston on July 29, 1701 stating that Dog or Lion dollars had been counterfeited in Massachusetts. In 1708 the New York Assembly set the value of the lion dollar at 5s6d. Also, the New York paper currency emission of November 1, 1709 was issued as amounts of sterling silver expressed in denominations of 4, 8, 16 and 20 lion dollars, with 13.75 oz. of silver equal to 20 lion dollars. Mossman also states lion dollars were used in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. In April of 1998 a Mike Cato from Virginia discovered a 1640 lion dollar while metal detecting. In the hoard collected from the H.M.S. Feversham, which sank on October 7, 1711 after leaving New York, there were 22 lion dollars (quantitatively third only to the 504 Spanish Colonial silver coins and the 126 specimens of Massachusetts silver). Also, two lion dollars were inventoried in the hoard discovered in Castine, Maine, thought to have been deposited there in 1704 by French colonists fleeing from the English. It should be recalled that most of the Castine hoard was dispersed before an inventory could be produced. Lion dollars were no longer minted after 1713, during the Eighteenth century they were replaced in the Mideast by the Austrian thaler. In the English colonies New World Spanish silver had always held first place and with the advent of the famous milled silver coinage in 1732, the Spanish milled dollar absorbed the lion dollars share of the market.
Delmonte 842 | Verkade 226.2 | HNPM.34 |
CNM.2.43.59 | Davenport 8854 R
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