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40 Stuivers PG
| Issuer | City of Amsterdam |
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| Year | 1578 |
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| Shape | Square with angled corners |
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| Obverse lettering | PG 1578 XL |
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| Mintage | 1578 |
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Amsterdam struck this coin in 1578 under extraordinary pressure — the city had defected from Spanish Habsburg authority just two years earlier during the so-called Alteratie, when Calvinist forces displaced the Catholic civic government virtually overnight. The municipal coinage that followed was a direct assertion of independent financial authority at a moment when the northern provinces were improvising both a rebellion and a functioning state simultaneously.
Delmonte S#204 is among the more elusive of the early Amsterdam civic issues. Few examples surface in original condition, partly because these heavier silver pieces circulated hard through the trade networks that made Amsterdam's commercial ascent possible in the following decades.