Issuing authority

City of Aire-sur-la-Lys

Historical issuing authority named in museum descriptions of objects in this catalogue.

Kind: city-state
Region: Western Europe, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

3 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1641 – 1709

3 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

Highest two confidence levels

Catalogue entries (3)

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Livre, emergency coin from Aire, struck during the siege by the Spanish

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Livre, emergency coin from Aire, struck during the siege by the Spanish

1641

Uniface, rectangular silver emergency coin of Aire, obliquely cut off at the bottom right. Obverse: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-291; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements height 2.1 cm x width 2 cm x weight 3.6 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Fifty stuivers, emergency coin from Aire, captured by the Allies, struck by order of Marquis Guébriant

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Fifty stuivers, emergency coin from Aire, captured by the Allies, struck by order of Marquis Guébriant

1709 - 1710

Uniface, octagonal silver emergency coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms between year within legend and beaded rim. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-460; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements height 2.7 cm x width…

Documented

Partial type record

Twenty-five stuivers, emergency coin from Aire, captured by the allies, struck by order of Margrave Guébriant

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Twenty-five stuivers, emergency coin from Aire, captured by the allies, struck by order of Margrave Guébriant

1709 - 1710

Single-sided, square silver emergency coin with bevelled corners. Obverse: crowned coat of arms between year within circumscription and beaded border. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-461; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking);…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

17th century1
18th century2

Only the 3 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

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