Beschreibung
Erhaltung: These coins normally are quite worn, most of the time not better as very s, | Abkürzungen
Katalognummer: Essequibo and Demerary
Durchmesser: 34,00 mm
weight 18,89gr. | copper Ø 34mm.
The Essequibo and Demerary were originally two of three Dutch colonies along the coast of present-day Guyana. They were seized by the British to avoid having them fall into French hands after the French invasion of the Netherlands. They remained in British control through the 1830s, at which point the Netherlands and Great Britain formally divided the region between them, the British taking over the western portion. This mixed colonial origin shows in the coinage: Though the portrait of the British monarch is honored on the obverse, the denominations are clearly Dutch.
KM.10
These coins normally are quite worn, most of the time not better as very fine,
and very hard to find in extremely fine or better.
Only the proofs and gilt-proofs of this cointype we see regularly in high grade
condition, but not the pieces meant for use in normal circulation.
Very rare as such.
xf+
