Catalog
1 Daalder 3 stamps, lion at top
| Issuer | Haarlem, Siege of |
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| Year | 1572 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Three applied counterstamps on a plain silver klippe field: the arms of Haarlem struck centrally, depicting the city's heraldic shield; a rampant lion facing left applied in the upper field; and the date incused below the central arms. The counterstamps are primitively executed, consistent with the emergency production conditions of the 1572–1573 siege, and the surrounding field is unworked and undecorated. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haarlem held out against Spanish forces for seven months during the early stages of the Eighty Years' War, finally capitulating in July 1573 after a brutal siege that reduced the population to starvation. This daalder was struck from emergency silver during that siege — the three countermarks indicate revaluations applied to whatever bullion or plate could be seized and pressed into coin. Siege money of this type was produced under desperate conditions with no fixed die standard, which accounts for the wide weight variation seen across surviving specimens.