1078939 | NETHERLANDS. Utrecht. 1717 AV Ducat. NGC MS62. CONCORDIARES ... Standing, armored knight holding bundle of arrows, divides date. Without inner circle / MO/ ORD/ PROVIN/ FOEDER/ BELGAD/ LEGIMP. Inscription within ornamented tablet. KM 7.4; Fr.-285.

The usual date for Utrecht ducats from this wreck was 1724, a handful of earlier dates were reported, including 47 of the date 1717 (see page 48 of Bjørn Rønning's 1979 book Akerendam: The Story of the Runde Treasure).

Recovered from the wreck of the treasure ship Akerendam (all Utrecht ducats dated 1724 are from this wreck).


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All 1724 Dutch gold ducats are from the Akerendam shipwreck. The Akerendam was a ship of the Dutch East India Company, built in 1724. On 19 January 1725, the Akerendam left in convoy with two other ships, heading for Batavia with a crew of 200 people and 19 chests of gold and silver on board. In total there were 57,000 coins recovered of which only 6,600 were gold.