Dutch East Indies Duit 1756 with branches surrounding VOC

[Terry Soloman]

So I drove by a yard sale and found this marked $2. I got it for $1. Did I do well?

 

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I dont know but its neat

 

[Mackaydon]

Terry,
"ya dun good!"
A great coin that tells part of the history of New York.
Don.....

 

[Red-Coat]

You did fine. The First Commemorative Mint still sells these today, in slightly different packaging:

https://www.fcmint.com/the-original-new-york-penny.html

The current price of $19.95 is about double what a dealer's price without the souvenir packaging would be. Nice piece of history.

 

[Terry Soloman]

You did fine. The First Commemorative Mint still sells these today, in slightly different packaging:

https://www.fcmint.com/the-original-new-york-penny.html

The current price of $19.95 is about double what a dealer's price without the souvenir packaging would be. Nice piece of history.

Way cool! Thank you!!

 

[unclemac]

to the best of my knowledge..."VOC coins never circulated in what is now New York. The reason is that at the peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Spanish Habsburgs recognized the Republic (as the Netherlands was known at the time), but part of the price was restrictions on trade with the Americas, especially what is now Latin America. Therefore, the VOC did not have a mandate to operate in the Americas.

The Dutch colony in New Amserdam was financed and supplied (and Manhattan was bought) by the West India Company (WIC), whose main business was slave, coffee and sugar trading (a sad story). The WIC did issue its own coins, but only from 1793, while New Amsterdam was traded for what is now Surinam in 1667 (Treaty of Breda)."... VOC coins never circulated in America.

 

[Terry Soloman]

to the best of my knowledge..."VOC coins never circulated in what is now New York. The reason is that at the peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Spanish Habsburgs recognized the Republic (as the Netherlands was known at the time), but part of the price was restrictions on trade with the Americas, especially what is now Latin America. Therefore, the VOC did not have a mandate to operate in the Americas.

The Dutch colony in New Amserdam was financed and supplied (and Manhattan was bought) by the West India Company (WIC), whose main business was slave, coffee and sugar trading (a sad story). The WIC did issue its own coins, but only from 1793, while New Amsterdam was traded for what is now Surinam in 1667 (Treaty of Breda)."... VOC coins never circulated in America.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

 

[ARC]

Wanna double your money ? ? ?

:P

 

[gunsil]

I agree that the VOC coins were not SUPPOSED to be used in the Americas, but I found two of them (duits) at a Dutch colonial house north of NYC. I would suspect that some Dutchman had traveled to the far east on business and returned to NY with some of them, and we all know any type of available coinage was used here during colonial times.

 

[gunsil]

Well Terry for all those things you've put off for later now you can finally say you got a round Duit.

 

[ARC]

Ok.. ok... Wanna triple your money ? ? ?

sheesh you drive a hard bargain.

 

[Mackaydon]

Another TNet member was scuba diving off the West Coast (Calif) and found a shipwreck with many of these duits. He sent me one that I still have.
Don.....

 

[Terry Soloman]

Well Terry for all those things you've put off for later now you can finally say you got a round Duit.

I just spit good bourbon all over my keyboard!

 

[gunsil]

I hope it wasn't Pappy Van Winkle!!