View of the new City Hall of Amsterdam, with the Nieuwe Kerk to the right; in front, in the Dam Square, a large crowd is celebrating the inauguration of the building; in the foreground, Amphion seated right in the ruins of the old City Hall, playing his lyre, and with his feet resting on a fallen column capital bearing the initials of the engraver. In the field above the buildings, Mercury flying left holding a caduceus in his right hand and, in his left, a liberty hat.
Obverse lettering
FUIT HAEC SAPIENTIA QUONDAM
OMNIBUS IDEM
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
View of the Argo, depicted as a sailing galley loaded with soldiers, sailing to right before the harbor of Amsterdam.
