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1/8 Daalder Klippe, siege of 1672
| Issuer | City of Deventer |
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| Year | 1672 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Reverse description | Uniface issue; the reverse presents a completely blank, unworked field, typical of klippe siege coinage produced rapidly under wartime conditions. The planchet surface shows the natural texture and irregularities of the hammered silver flan, with no design, legend, or device of any kind applied to this face. |
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| Mintage | 1672 |
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Deventer struck emergency coinage during the French occupation of 1672 — the Rampjaar, or Disaster Year — when Louis XIV's armies swept through the Dutch Republic with stunning speed. The city fell in June and was not recovered until the following year. Klippe issues like this one were produced from whatever silver could be gathered under siege conditions, cut square precisely because the machinery and dies for round coinage were unavailable or destroyed.
The 1/8 Daalder denomination placed small-value emergency money within reach of ordinary residents whose commerce had effectively collapsed. Survivors in any grade are scarce.