½ Daalder Pewter, Klippe; Zeeland mark

Features

Issuer	Siege of Zierikzee (Dutch Republic)
Type	Emergency coinage › Siege coins
Conflict	Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
Year	1575
Value	½ Daalder (¾)
Currency	Gulden (1581-1795)
Composition	Pewter
Weight	14.3 g
Shape	Klippe
Technique	Hammered, Klippe
Issued	7 November 1575
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 477522
References	HPM# Zi 05.2 Dick Purmer, Alko H. N. van der Wiel. Handboek van de Nederlandse Provinciale Muntslag. Nederlandse Vereniging van Munthandelaren (2 volumes). , Gelder TO# 85c Hendrik Enno van Gelder; 1955. De Nederlandse Noodmunten van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog = The Dutch Emergency Coins of the Eighty Years' War. Staatsdrukkerij- en Uitgeverijbedrijf, The Hague, Netherlands. , Maillet# 131.4-5 Prosper Mailliet; 1868. Atlas de monnaies obsidionales et de nécessité. Imprimeur Gobbaerts, Brussels, Belgium.

Obverse

Three stamps: at center Zierikzee arms in beaded circle, at top smaller Zeeland arms in beaded circle, at bottom date in ornate frame.

Script: Latin

Lettering: 1575

Reverse

Blank.

Mint

Zierikzee, Netherlands (1575-1576)

Comments

HPM lists the material as ‘Tin’, because the Dutch term ‘Peauter’, the term for a tin alloy, is not commonly used.

Coats of arms of Zeeland (left) and Zierikzee (right) (Source: Wikipedia)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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1575

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