Ex Brand, Dupont and Ferrari Collections

Triton XIX, Lot: 2573. Estimate $5000. Sold for $42500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Koninkrijk Holland. Lodewijk I Napoleon. 1806-1810. Proof AV Fantasy 50 Stuivers (38.5mm, 34.98 g, 12h). Utrecht mint. Dated 1807, though struck circa 1902 for Baron Ferrari. Bare head right / Crowned coat-of-arms over garlanded crossed scepters. Cf. Schulman 140a (for type in silver); cf. KM 28 (same); Friedberg –. Proof, faint hairlines. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Spink 17 (16 September 1981), lot 150; H. Schulman (17 January 1963), lot 3243; Virgil M. Brand Collection; Dupont Collection; Baron Philippe de Ferrari la Renotière Collection (J. Schulman, 16 November 1925), lot 569.