Netherlands

Silver Rider 1666, Urban Mintage at Deventer. MO· NO· ARG· CIVIT – · DAVENTRIA. Inner circles on obverse and reverse. Delm. 1038. Very rare: cataloged as R2. From VOC ship 't Vliegent Hert. Old auction card/text with reference to the ship available 'T Vliegend Hert, also called 'T Vliegend Hart, was a spiegelretourschip (mirror-return vessel) of the Dutch East India Company. The ship was built in 1729 for the VOC Chamber Zeeland. It had a cargo capacity of 850 tons, was 145 feet long, and housed 256 crew members. On 3 February 1735 the ship set sail, under the command of skipper Cornelis van der Horst, from Rammekens to the East Indies. 't Vliegend Hert, together with its concurrently sailed sister ship Anna Catharina, ran onto a shoal 18 km off the coast of Vlissingen and sank, with all on board perishing. (Coordinates: 51° 30′ N, 03° 7′ E)

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