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Daalder Silver, Klippe, Zeeland mark

Issuer Siege of Zierikzee (Dutch Republic)
Year 1575
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Value 1 Daalder (3⁄2)
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Edge Plain
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Mintage 1575
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Zierikzee was besieged by Spanish forces under Mondragon from late 1575 into 1576, and the town's desperate need for a functioning currency during the blockade produced some of the most irregular emergency coinage of the Eighty Years' War. Klippe issues like this one were struck from crudely cut square planchets — a direct consequence of no proper round blanks being available under siege conditions.

The Zeeland provincial mark confirms this was sanctioned by local authority rather than improvised by a private party. Delmonte's attribution S#171 places it firmly within the documented Zierikzee siege series, which is short and well-catalogued.

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