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Issuing authority

Duchy of Cleves

Kind
duchy
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

1481 – 1646

4 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Duchy of Cleves, Johann II, 1481-1521, groschen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Duchy of Cleves, Johann II, 1481-1521, groschen

1481 - 1521

Silver coin. Obverse: composite coat of arms within decorated polylobe. Reverse: long-footed cross with a lily in each corner. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0404; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.5 cm x weight…

Documented

Partial type record

Huissen, duit

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Huissen, duit

1609 - 1626

Copper coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of the possessing princes. Reverse: within two half laurel wreaths, inscription in three lines. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2147; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.3…

Documented

Partial type record

Schilling from Huissen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Schilling from Huissen

1609

Silver coin. Obverse: coat of arms within an inscription. Reverse: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-572; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 3.1 cm x weight 4.36 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Mariengroschen from the Duchy of Cleves of Albrecht Friedrich and Philipp Ludwig, 1646

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Mariengroschen from the Duchy of Cleves of Albrecht Friedrich and Philipp Ludwig, 1646

1646

Silver coin. Obverse: composite coat of arms. Reverse: indication of value in three lines. Year in circumscription at the top. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-0407; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 1.9 cm x weight…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 15th century1
  • 17th century3

Only the 4 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

  • Silver3
  • 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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