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Daalder / 30 Stuiver Nijmegen
| Issuer | City of Nijmegen |
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| Year | 1563-1565 |
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| Value | 1 Daalder (1.5) |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned coat of arms of the city of Nijmegen, depicting a double-headed eagle with a small inescutcheon on its breast charged with a rampant lion. The crowned shield is set within the field with the encircling legend running along the periphery. The heraldic design is rendered in the angular, high-relief style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century Low Countries hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse description | A rampant double-tailed lion facing left, holding by a cord in its dexter forepaw a suspended shield bearing the arms of Nijmegen. A mint mark depicting crossed mining tools (bergwerkszeichen) appears in the field. The reverse legend encircles the design, referencing the Philips penning standard and the denomination of 30 stuiver, in keeping with the monetary ordinances of the period. |
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Nijmegen occupied an unusual position in the mid-sixteenth century Netherlands: an imperial city with direct ties to the Holy Roman Empire yet increasingly drawn into the economic orbit of the rebellious northern provinces. The city's daalder issues of the early 1560s predate the outbreak of the Eighty Years' War by only a few years, struck at a moment when municipal minting rights were being exercised aggressively across the Low Countries to meet a severe shortage of large silver trade coinage.
Van der Chijs documents three die varieties across the 1563–1565 span, suggesting continuous if not heavy production. Delmonte's attribution confirms the Gelderland regional classification.