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1 Crown
| Emittent | Middelburg, Siege of |
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| Jahr | 1573 |
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| Referenz(en) | Fr#164-1, Delmonte G#919, Vanhoudt#464 |
| Aversbeschreibung | A square klippe flan struck in high-purity gold, bearing a four-line Latin inscription arranged in the center of the field reading DEO REGI PA: TRIÆ FIDEL, expressing loyalty to God, King, and Fatherland, with the place name MIDDELB: and the date I·5·7·3 inscribed below. Two countermarks appear in diagonally opposite corners outside the inscribed area: a crowned letter A (A27-3) and the Middelburg mint mark in the form of a castle or tower symbol. The entire design reflects the exigency of the siege coinage tradition, with the inscriptions punched or stamped onto a roughly cut planchet with little decorative embellishment. The lettering is rendered in capital Latin characters with ornamental stops and cross pattée devices flanking the text. The reverse is entirely blank, consistent with the emergency nature of this issue produced during the Spanish siege of Middelburg. |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland, held out under Spanish siege for nearly two years before finally capitulating in February 1574. This crown belongs to the emergency coinage struck by the besieged town during that ordeal — coins produced not as commemoratives but as functional currency when normal supply lines had collapsed entirely. The Spanish blockade under Mondragon cut the town off by both land and sea, forcing civic authorities to melt available gold plate and jewelry to keep money in circulation.
Vanhoudt 464 is among the scarcer of the Middelburg siege types, with surviving examples traceable almost entirely to Dutch institutional collections and a handful of major auction appearances since the 1970s.