RE: 12 Days of Christmas; Day 6, & 7 -1996 Netherlands 3 Daalders - 400 years VOC Series

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Quite a horrific sailor's tale 😂😂

All for some pepper and spices...

Lovely coins though.. are they coloured? The ships seem a little blacker than the rest of the coin.



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Well @seki1 That is what happens when you’ve got terrible leadership running the expedition. The focus is too much on the profits and not enough planning to develop longer term economic and diplomatic ties with this new world.

I believe these are artist representations of the silver medals than the actual medals themselves. While there are Cupro-nickel can still be found, a photograph of a silver version is hard to find. This gives me a strong feeling that these are quite rare. Numista.com nor NGCcoin.com does not even have a real picture of these medals and therefore rates the rarity to be 100%.

!BBH

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Ahhh

That's quite nice...

A 100% rare coin...

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