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Issuing authority

Spanish Netherlands

Kind
colony
Region
Low Countries, 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

1517 – 1617

4 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Spanish real of Charles and Joanna, King and Queen of Castile

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Spanish real of Charles and Joanna, King and Queen of Castile

1517

Obverse: crowned coat of arms within legend. Reverse: firesteel, from which hangs the Golden Fleece, on a Cross of Burgundy, between date within legend. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-92; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements d…

Documented

Partial type record

Duit of Archdukes Albert and Isabella, Dukes of Brabant, 1603

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Duit of Archdukes Albert and Isabella, Dukes of Brabant, 1603

1603

Copper coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms. Reverse: coat of arms of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, date above. Coin clipped to a square. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2153; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.1 c…

Documented

Partial type record

Archdukes Albert and Isabella, Dukes of Brabant, oord, 1613

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Archdukes Albert and Isabella, Dukes of Brabant, oord, 1613

1613

Copper coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms between stars [=mint marks of Maastricht]. Reverse: between date on a raguly cross the crowned coat of arms of Maastricht, beneath which is the Golden Fleece. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2164; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal…

Documented

Partial type record

Tournai, Albert and Isabella, double souverain, 1617

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Tournai, Albert and Isabella, double souverain, 1617

1617

Gold coin. Obverse: Albert and Isabella side by side in a seat. Date in exergue. Reverse: crowned composite coat of arms surrounded by the collar of the Golden Fleece. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-2422; its record gives material recorded as gold (metal); technique striking (metalworking)…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 16th 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

  • Copper2
  • Gold1
  • Silver1

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

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