½ Dubloen - Terschelling

½ Dubloen - Terschelling - obverse½ Dubloen - Terschelling - reverse

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Features

Location Netherlands
Queen Beatrix (1980-2013)
Type Trade tokens › Local administration token
Year 1999
Value ½ Dubloen
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 9.4 g
Diameter 30 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
142450

Commemorative issue

200 years since the Lutine frigate sankAutomatically translated

Obverse

Crowned coat of arms of Terschelling, legend on the right.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
TERSCHELLING
SCHYLGE

Reverse

Stylized sail of a 3 masted boat above a lighthouse, legend and date on the right.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
½ DUBLOEN
GOUDSCHIP LUTINE HERDENKING 1799/1999

Edge

Milled

Mint

Mintmark of Royal Dutch Mint Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date)

Mark

Bow and arrow Chris van Draanen, Mint Master, Royal Dutch Mint (1989-2000)

Comments

Terschelling and Vlieland proclaimed 1999 "the year of the Lutines".

Lutine was a frigate that served in both the French Navy and the Royal Navy. She was launched by the French in 1779. The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was commissioned as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian islands in a storm in 1799.

She was built as a French Magicienne-class frigate with 32 guns, and was launched at Toulon in 1779. During the French Revolution, Lutine fell under French Royalist control. On December 18, 1793, she was one of sixteen ships delivered to a British fleet at the end of the siege of Toulon, to prevent her being captured by the French Republicans. In 1795, she was rebuilt by the British as a fifth-rate 38-gun frigate. She later served in the North Sea, where she was part of the blockade of Amsterdam.

Lutine sank in a storm at Vlieland, West Friesland, on October 9, 1799, while carrying a large cargo of gold. Shifting sandbanks disrupted recovery attempts, and most of the cargo was never recovered. Lloyd's of London retained its salvaged bell - the Lutine Bell - which is now used for ceremonial purposes at their London headquarters.Automatically translated

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