Lot 4642

Sale 60 · An Important Collection of Australian Banknotes, Australian & World Coins

Netherlands, Utrecht, silver rider 1711, (KM.83.1). Bend in flans, surface corrosion, otherwise very good - fine for issue. (2)

Appears to be sea salvaged and probably from the wreck of the 'De Liefde' (The Love) a Dutch East-Indiaman ship wrecked off the out Skerries (the most easterly of the Shetland Islands), 7th November 1711 which carried a lot of these coins all dated 1711.