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20 Stuivers
| Issuer | City of Amsterdam (Dutch Republic) |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1581-1795) |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unadorned field with no design, inscription, or decorative element of any kind, consistent with the hastily produced nature of this siege emergency coinage. The surface shows characteristic flat texture and natural wear marks resulting from the striking process on an improvised klippe flan. |
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| Mintage | 1578 - Soldering vase - 1578 - Fire steal - 1578 - Monogram PG - |
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Amsterdam struck this coin just months after the city's dramatic switch of allegiance in May 1578 — the "Alteratie" — when Calvinist civic leaders displaced the Catholic municipal government without significant bloodshed. The Dutch Republic's coinage authority was still fragmented at this point, with individual cities retaining the right to issue silver, and Amsterdam exercised that right almost immediately after the political transition.
Delmonte's classification places it within a short emission window before provincial standardization tightened control over urban minting.