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10½ Stuivers Siege of Kampen
| Issuer | City of Kampen (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Weight | 7.1 g |
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| Obverse description | Square klippe flan struck in hammered silver, presented on point (rotated 45 degrees). Along the upper two edges runs the two-part Latin legend EXTREMVM / SVBSIDIVM ('last resort'), incuse within a plain border. At centre, the crowned city arms of Kampen — a tower with an arched gateway — occupy the field. To the left of the shield, a cartouche bears the denomination mark X½ (ten-and-a-half stuivers), and a corresponding cartouche to the right bears ST (stuivers). Below the shield, the city name CAMPEN is inscribed, and the date 1578 appears in a rectangular tablet at the lowermost point of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kampen issued siege coinage in 1578 under pressure from Spanish forces during the early phase of the Dutch Revolt, when normal supply chains for bullion and minted currency had broken down across the Overijssel region. The odd denomination — 10½ stuivers — reflects emergency arithmetic rather than any standard monetary convention, calculated to circulate alongside existing coinage at a functional exchange rate rather than conform to a tidy fraction of the guilder.
The city held out. Most siege issues were melted or worn to illegibility; survivors in any condition are scarce.