City of Leiden, emergency coin of 1 gulden or 20 stuivers, 1574
Also known as: Stad Leiden, noodmunt van 1 gulden of 20 stuivers, 1574
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1574
Paper emergency coin, manufactured from sheets of paper glued together, from which a round blank was struck. Obverse: between the year: 15 74, a rampant Holland lion standing on a patch of ground, holding a lance topped with a hat in its claws.
Above the lion in the legend, a crown. Above the numeral 15, a countermark: a Holland lion in an escutcheon (to guarantee authenticity). Reverse: within a cartouche the coat of arms of Leiden with two concentric legends. The outer legend, "God behoede Leyden", the inner: "NOVLSGIPAC" [= Nummus Obsessae Urbis Leydensis Sub Gubernatione Illlustris(simi) Principis Auraici Cusus: emergency coin of the city of Leiden, struck under the government of the illustrious Prince of Orange].
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1620A; its record gives material recorded as paper; technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 3.7 cm x weight 1.79 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- paper
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Dimensions
- diameter 3,7 cm x gewicht (eigenschap) 1,79 g · diameter 3.7 cm x weight 1.79 g
- Measurements
- diameter 3.7 cm x weight 1.79 g
Design
- Obverse
- between the year: 15 74, a rampant Holland lion standing on a patch of ground, holding a lance topped with a hat in its claws. Above the lion in the legend, a crown. Above the numeral 15, a countermark: a Holland lion in an escutcheon (to guarantee authenticity).
- Reverse
- within a cartouche the coat of arms of Leiden with two concentric legends. The outer legend, "God behoede Leyden", the inner: "NOVLSGIPAC" [= Nummus Obsessae Urbis Leydensis Sub Gubernatione Illlustris(simi) Principis Auraici Cusus: emergency coin of the city of Leiden, struck under the government of the illustrious Prince of Orange].
Identification
- Original title
- Stad Leiden, noodmunt van 1 gulden of 20 stuivers, 1574
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- KOG-MP-1-1620A
- Museum classification
- gulden · siege coin · coin
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