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Medal - Capture of Breda
| Location | Dutch Republic |
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| Year | 1637 |
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| Weight | 94.93 g |
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| Obverse description | In the upper field, the Tetragrammaton (יהוה) in Hebrew within a star-bordered frame amid clouds and radiating rays, with the armored arm of Frederik Hendrik brandishing an upraised sword emerging below. In the middle ground, a panoramic view of the city of Breda with its fortifications is depicted, flanked on the left by a canal boat laden with peat entering the city walls (alluding to Maurice of Orange's stratagem of 1590), and on the right by the personification of Breda as a crowned woman being throttled by the gaunt figure of Famine (referencing Spinola's siege of 1624–25). The artist's signature and privilege notice appear in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ANTE FAME AUT ASTU VI MODO FACTA VIA EST · CVM PRIVIL. / I.Looff / FE. (Translation: before by famine or guile, now by force of arms) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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