Issuing authority
Dutch West India Company
- Kind
- company
- 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
5
Individual types and documented families
With photographs
100%
5 with a credited real-object photo
Dated span
1645 – 1654
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
Gold 3 guilder emergency coin; issued by the WIC during the Portuguese siege of Pernambuco
1645-10-10 - 1646
More or less rectangular, gold emergency coin. Obverse: within a round beaded border: monogram of the letters G, W and C below the Roman numeral III within an inscription. Reverse: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-313; its record gives material recorded as gold (metal); technique…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Gold emergency coin of 12 guilders; issued by the WIC during the Portuguese siege of Pernambuco
1645-10-10 - 1646
More or less rectangular, gold emergency coin. Obverse: within a circular beaded border: monogram of letters G, W and C beneath Roman numeral XII within an inscription. Reverse: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-314; its record gives material recorded as gold (metal); technique st…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Forty stuivers, emergency coin from Pernambuco, struck during the siege by order of the Dutch West India Company
1654
Uniface, more or less rectangular silver emergency coin. Obverse: within a circular beaded border: monogram of the letters G, W, and C beneath the Roman numeral XXXX. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-326; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Ten stuivers, emergency coin from Pernambuco, struck during the siege by order of the Dutch West India Company
1654
Uniface, lozenge-shaped silver emergency coin. Obverse: within a circular beaded border: monogram of the letters G, W, and C beneath the Roman numeral X. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-328; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworkin…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Twelve stuivers, emergency coin from Pernambuco, struck during the siege by order of the Dutch West India Company
1654
Uniface, lozenge-shaped silver emergency coin with bevelled corners. Obverse: within a circular beaded border: monogram of the letters G, W, and C beneath the Roman numeral XII. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-327; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); techniq…
Partial type record
Materials recorded in the physical descriptions
- Silver3
- Gold2
An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.
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