Lead Die Trial for 1479 Deventer Quarter Plak

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1996. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $430. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Deventer. David van Bourgondië. 1455-1496. PB Quarter Plak Die Trial (4.88 g). Dated 1479. Short cross, pellets in angles / Blank. Levinson III-106 note; cf. Frey 199. Good VF, darkly toned.

From the Robert A. Levinson Collection.

This lead pattern strike was made from the reverse die of the 1479 Quarter Plak. However, the die used for this pattern was not used to strike official issues, which were smaller. This is one of several dies likely produced at the Deventer mint.