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The Half Golden Rider

The Half Golden Rider

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The Half Golden Rider

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Location: Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands

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Dominiek Van Dooren

September 15, 2025

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In 1966, more than 1,000 gold coins from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries were found in a leek field on Dorpsstraat in Serooskerke. The coins were auctioned in November 1966 at the Jacques Schulman auction house in Amsterdam. The proceeds: 645,940 guilders (293,115 euros). Half went to the finders, the other to the municipality. With its share, the municipality built a medical center and an outdoor swimming pool in Serooskerke, aptly named De Goudvijver (The Gold Pond), which still exists today.

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

November 30, 2022

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The work of art stands on the grass at the Oostkapelseweg-Van Vollenhovenweg three-way intersection. It depicts a seventeenth-century gold coin, the half gold rider, from the gold hoard discovered in 1965.

Artwork was made in bronze by Iris Le Rutte.

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Aedt

June 8, 2023

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After a house was demolished in the village street, a leek field was created. In 1966, several thousand pieces of gold from 1622 were found during the harvest.
An inscription commemorates this:

De halve golden Rijder

Iris Le Rutte
2018 brons

Tere van de gouden munten vondst in
Serooskerke in 1966

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Half the Golden Rider

Iris Le Rutte
Bronze 2018

In honor of the gold coin find in
Serooskerke in 1966

more: Peter Blom, De goudschat van Serooskerke

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