Issuing authority
Duchy of Jülich
- Kind
- duchy
- Region
- Germany, 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
1543 – 1621
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
Thaler, emergency coin of Jülich, struck to pay the troops of Emperor Charles V who had taken the city the previous year without a fight.
1543
Uniface silver emergency coin struck on a thick irregular flan. Obverse: a stamp in a cartouche: rampant lion with sword in raised right paw between numerals 4 and 3. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-11; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Four units, emergency coin from Jülich, struck during the siege by Maurice, Prince of Orange-Nassau, made by clipping a piece from a plate or bowl and stamped with the monogram of Rudolf II, German Emperor
1610-07-29 - 1610-09-02
Irregular, hexagonal, single-sided silver emergency coin, with the raised rim of the original object along the top edge. Obverse: two stamps: left: value indication Roman numeral IIII in rectangle; right: crowned letter R; below it the year, interrupted by the letter L within a round beaded border. Reverse: blank. T…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Ten units, emergency coin from Jülich, struck during the siege by Maurice, Prince of Orange-Nassau, made by clipping a piece from a plate or bowl and stamped with the monogram of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1610-07-29 - 1610-09-02
Irregular, downward-tapering rectangular, single-sided silver emergency coin, with the convex, raised rim of the original object at the top and chamfered corners at the bottom. Obverse: two stamps: left: value designation Roman numeral X in a rectangle; right: crowned letter R; below it the year, interrupted by the…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Two units, emergency coin from Jülich, struck during the siege by Maurice, Prince of Orange-Nassau, manufactured by clipping pieces from tableware and stamped with the monogram of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1610-07-29 - 1610-09-02
Irregular, more or less oval, single-sided silver emergency coin of Jülich. Obverse: two stamps: left: value indication Roman numeral II in a rectangle; right: crowned letter R; below that date, interrupted by the letter L within an oval beaded border. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Siege of Jülich by Albert, Archduke of Austria, emergency coin of two shillings, made from a coin stamped with the monogram of Frederik Pithaen
1621-09-05 - 1622-02-02
Octagonal, single-sided emergency coin of two stuivers from Jülich. Obverse: a stamp: monogram of letters F and P, which interrupts the year and value indication; reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-247; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (me…
Partial type record
Dated entries by century
- 16th century1
- 17th century4
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.
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