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Issuing authority

City of Nijmegen

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

6

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

6 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1475 – 1690

6 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Nijmegen, peerdeke or quarter snaphaan

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Nijmegen, peerdeke or quarter snaphaan

1475 - 1525

Billon coin. Obverse: Saint George on horseback, riding to the right. Reverse: city coat of arms on a long cross patée. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2138; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.8 cm x weight 2.5 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Nijmegen, vierling or quarter stuiver, 1557

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Nijmegen, vierling or quarter stuiver, 1557

1557

Billon coin. Obverse: city coat of arms, above which a crowned helmet. Reverse: short foliated cross with a small cross in the center, in the angles 1, 5, 5 and 7. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2137A; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking);…

Documented

Partial type record

Duit of Nijmegen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Duit of Nijmegen

1618 - 1620

Copper coin. Obverse: maiden seated in a garden with raised right arm and city coat of arms before her. Reverse: within a laurel wreath inscription: city name in three lines. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2138A; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (met…

Documented

Partial type record

Nijmegen half stuiver, 1620

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Nijmegen half stuiver, 1620

1620

Billon coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of Nijmegen between value indication 1/2 S. Date around the crown. Reverse: long decorated cross, in the center small city coat of arms, in the angles the letters H, S, V and N. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2138AA; its record gives material reco…

Documented

Partial type record

Nijmegen, daalder, 1689

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Nijmegen, daalder, 1689

1689

Silver coin. Obverse: standing armored knight with raised sword in right hand and crowned coat of arms of Nijmegen before him. Reverse: crowned coat of arms of Nijmegen, supported by two lions. Below the coat of arms the value indication 30 ST. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2139A; its rec…

Documented

Partial type record

Nijmegen equestrian schelling, 1690/1

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Nijmegen equestrian schelling, 1690/1

1690 - 1691

Silver coin. Obverse: between value indication 6 S, crowned coat of arms of Nijmegen. Beside the crown a two-digit, poorly legible date. Reverse: knight on horseback riding to the right. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2138B; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique s…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 15th century1
  • 16th century1
  • 17th century4

Only the 6 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

  • Silver5
  • Copper1

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

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