Issuing authority
City of Tournai
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
2
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
2 with a credited real-object photo
Verified or well documented
0
Highest two confidence levels
Catalogue entries (2)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Double stuiver, emergency coin from Tournai besieged by the Allies, struck by order of Marshal de Surville, made from a 1655 coin
1709-07-20
Uniface emergency coin. Obverse: tower without portcullis below numeral 2 within inscription and decorative border. Reverse: blank; traces of underlying inscription visible. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-458; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalwo…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Double stuiver, emergency coin from Tournai captured by the Allies, struck by order of Marshal de Surville, made from a worn coin
1709-07-20
Uniface emergency coin. Obverse: tower with portcullis below numeral 2 within legend and decorative border. Reverse: blank; traces of underlying legend visible on both sides. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-453-A; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (meta…
Partial type record
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