Issuing authority
City of Amsterdam
- 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
5
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
5 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1578 – 1800
5 entries with their own date
Verified or well documented
0
Highest two confidence levels
Catalogue entries (5)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Five stuivers, emergency coin from Amsterdam, struck after the siege
1578 - 1631
Uniface, diamond-shaped emergency coin with bevelled corners. Obverse: three stamps; from bottom to top: mint master's mark: firesteel, partially struck over second stamp: city coat of arms: crowned escutcheon, to the left part of the digit 5 still visible, to the right of 7 visible, to the right of crown: digit 0 v…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Forty stuivers, emergency coin from Amsterdam, struck during the siege from municipal silver
1578-01-05
Diamond-shaped emergency coin with bevelled corners. Obverse: two stamps one above the other; from bottom to top: mintmaster's mark: soldering vase; city coat of arms: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above year; to the left of crown letter X, to the right letter L within round beaded border. Reverse: insc…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Ten stuivers, emergency coin from Amsterdam, struck after the siege
1578 - 1631
Single-sided, diamond-shaped emergency coin with a hole in it. Obverse: three stamps one above the other; from bottom to top: mintmaster mark [piece pierced at this point]: presumably letters P and G; city coat of arms: crowned shield, to the left part of the numeral 5 still visible, to the right of 7 visible, to th…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Twenty stuivers, emergency coin from Amsterdam, struck after the siege
1578 - 1631
Uniface, diamond-shaped emergency coin. Obverse: three stamps one above the other; from bottom to top: mintmaster's mark: letters P and G; city coat of arms: crowned coat of arms, to the left part of numeral 5 still visible, to the right of 7 visible, to the right of crown: numeral 0 visible; year above two letters…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
banknotes
Fire department in Amsterdam, emergency token of 25 cents
c. 1800 - c. 1900
Rectangular paper emergency token with bevelled corners. Obverse: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions above an inscription. Reverse: inscription. Emergency token. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-9-909-M; its record gives material recorded as paper; technique printing; measurements heigh…
Partial type record
Entries by catalogue category
- Modern World Coins4
- Banknotes1
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Dated entries by century
- 16th century4
- 18th century1
Only the 5 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.
Materials recorded in the physical descriptions
- Silver4
- Paper1
An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.
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