Exceptional Circa 1600 Netherlands Kampen Double Rose Noble Gold Coin Graded By PCGS

PCGS - The gold Dutch coin emulates a contemporary English sovereign and has approximately half a dozen survivors.

Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) recently encapsulated a circa 1600 Dutch gold coin designed to look like an English Elizabeth I Sovereign. The Netherlands Kampen Double Rose Noble is an extremely rare gold coin yielding perhaps five or six known specimens, one of which was recently sold for $195,500 at auction before it was submitted to PCGS for grading. The exquisite specimen, attributed as an FR-155 Vanhoudt-1575 variety, was graded PCGS MS63.


This rare circa 1600s Netherlands Kampen Double Rose Noble was graded MS63 by PCGS

"We're always thrilled when collectors and dealers submit their coins for grading after purchasing them at auction," said PCGS President Stephanie Sabin. "It's often the case that the true value of a coin becomes more apparent only after they have been graded by PCGS, which receives many crossover and raw-to-encapsulated submissions of coins that recently crossed the block. In this situation, we were pleased to have the opportunity to review this stunning and historic gold coin from the Netherlands. And the fact that it was entrusted to us shows that the best coins always end up in PCGS holders."



This circa 1600 Netherlands Kampen Double Rose Noble has a real story to tell. "The reason why the Dutch made nobles - and multiple nobles, as in this case - was in imitation of English coinage of the time period primarily to buy wool and other items from the English," explained Ryan White of Liberty Coin Galleries, the firm that submitted the coin for encapsulation at PCGS. "They found that if they produced a coin of a similar size, weight, and appearance as the English examples, they could more easily trade with English. As most people were illiterate at the time, the differences in the legends were usually overlooked."

White elucidated that the coin exists in three different weights, all examples of which are "very scarce." He went on to add that "this is considered one of the finest and most artistic of all Dutch coinage of the time."

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