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Issuing authority

City of Middelburg

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

4

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

4 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1572 – 1574

4 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

1572-12-20

Lozenge-shaped emergency coin with suspension loop. Obverse: three stamps: inscription in circular beaded border; left State coat of arms, right: city coat of arms. Reverse: inscription: "Doen ick was gheslegen was middelburch belegen so datter 'tvolck at van hongers wegen paerden honden huen duer noot katten ratten…

Documented

Partial type record

Daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege; Emergency coin of one daalder, of the siege of Middelburg

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege; Emergency coin of one daalder, of the siege of Middelburg

1572-12-20

Uniface, diamond-shaped emergency coin. Obverse: four stamps: inscription in a round beaded border; left and overlapping the middle stamp: national coat of arms; right: city coat of arms. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-32; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal)…

Documented

Partial type record

Half daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Half daalder, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

1572-12-20

Uniface, diamond-shaped emergency coin. Obverse: four stamps: inscription in round beaded border; to the left and across the middle stamp: State coat of arms, to the right: city coat of arms. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-35; its record gives material recorded as silver (me…

Documented

Partial type record

Kroon, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Kroon, emergency coin from Middelburg, struck during the siege

1574-01-20

Uniface, diamond-shaped emergency coin with a hole on a suspension ring. Obverse: three stamps side by side: in the center: inscription within a circular beaded border; left: State coat of arms; right: city coat of arms. Reverse: inscription: "doen ic vvas geslegen vvas middelburgh belege so datter 'tvolc at van hon…

Documented

Partial type record

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

  • Silver3
  • Gold1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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