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Lot 7. Early American and Betts Medals
Notable 1683 Dutch West India Company Medal
Overstruck on a Holland Two DucatoonRelic of the African Slave Trade
1683 Dutch West India Company. Silver. 46.0 mm. 32.6 grams. Betts-64. Plain Edge--Overstruck on a Two Ducatoon of Holland, circa 1671-1680--MS-62 (PCGS).
Lustrous silver gray with pale violet and rose highlights. Minor planchet split at 3 o'clock on obverse rim. A few tiny scratches and hay marks do nothing to detract from the excellent eye appeal of this specimen. Fascinatingly, this medal struck by the primary Dutch trading company in the Western Hemisphere is overstruck on one of the primary trade coins used in that commerce. Evidence of the under coin is clear on both obverse and reverse, including a crown in the left obverse field and traces of the shield at central reverse.The Dutch West India Company (or Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie) was established in 1621 by charter of the States-General of the United Netherlands. By the terms of their charter, the company was granted an official monopoly on all trade on the Atlantic including colonies in Africa, the West Indies, and North and South America. The DWC was also permitted to establish colonies in the name of the States-General, which they did with great glee and delight: Fort Oranje at Albany in 1624, Fort Nassau at Philadelphia in the same year, Fort Good Hope at Hartford in 1633, and of course Fort Amsterdam at New York City in 1626. The company attempted to populate its new colonies with assurances of wealth through the fur trade in these regions, and offered patroonships with huge tracts of land to any investor who would pay to bring 50 new colonists to the New York settlements. During the turnover of New York to the English between 1664 and 1674, the Dutch West India Company turned its attention to settlements in modern-day Guyana and Suriname as well as African possessions such as Angola and Madagascar. In 1674, the company disbanded and reformed as the Nieuwe West Indische Compagnie, whose sphere included Curacao, the aforementioned properties on the north coast of South America, and several African ports. Their trade revolved around sugar cane, coffee, chocolate, and slaves.This medal depicts and names one of the jewels of the Dutch West India Company crown during this period when the role of the company was changing from its height as a colonizing force in the 1620s and 1630s. The castle of St. George d'Elmina in Ghana was built in 1482 by the Portuguese and captured in 1637 by the Dutch West India Company, who used it as a center of trade in slaves and gold coming from the port of Elmina, which translates as "the mine" in Portuguese, to the Caribbean, Brazil and mainland North America. The castle, which still stands and is the oldest European building in Africa, is depicted with the striped flag of the Dutch West India Company flying above it and a well detailed galleon in the foreground. While the legend FULCRA NON MINIMA has never been satisfactorily translated, Betts' rendering as "Not the smallest support" may imply that the slaves and gold of Africa were a large reason for the success of the company. Indeed, the so-called "triangular trade" that tied the American colonies, Europe, and the Gold Coast of Africa together was driven by slaves from Africa. A European ship would visit a "factory," or trading post operated by factors (tradesmen) on the African coast, such as the one at St. George d'Elmina, and trade its manufactures for slaves. The slaves would be taken to the Caribbean in trade for molasses and sugar for the European markets. The New England colonies in this period were tied in as the major source of the world's rum, produced from Caribbean molasses and often exchanged for slaves, who were traded up and down the Eastern Seaboard in the late 17th century. In the bizarre Atlantic economy of the epoch during which this medal was struck, the Dutch West India Company and its castle of St. George d'Elmina were absolutely central. As such, this medal is of the highest historical significance as a rare and important relic of the African slave trade, struck over a coin gained by the Dutch as profit in this ignominious traffic.
From the John Sallay Collection. Earlier from Jacques Schulman's sale of November 1971, lot 661; our (Bowers and Merena's) sale of the Cabinet of Lucien M. LaRiviere, Part III, May 2001, lot 1019. Bowers and Merena lot tag and paper envelope with attribution and provenance notes included.ent from Yahoo Mail on Android
