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3 Daalders - VOC Cartograph Johannes Blaeu
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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| Weight | 11.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter-length draped bust of Johannes Blaeu facing slightly left, rendered in high relief against a mirror-polished field. The background features an engraved cartographic wind-rose pattern with radiating rhumb lines and coastal chart outlines, alluding to Blaeu's role as cartographer of the VOC. A celestial or navigational armillary sphere is visible to the lower right. The curved legend at the top of the field reads JOHANNES BLAEU / CARTOGRAAF VAN DE VOC, with an engraver's initials incused at the lower right of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOHANNES BLAEU CARTOGRAAF VAN DE VOC |
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Johannes Blaeu's father Willem founded the cartographic dynasty, but it was Johannes who produced the Atlas Maior in 1662 — at eleven volumes, the largest and most expensive book published in the seventeenth century. The VOC connection was direct: the company relied on Blaeu charts for navigation, and Johannes served as the VOC's official cartographer. The Amsterdam printworks burned down in 1672, destroying most of the plates.