How Far Back Can We Go? Seventh Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

thanks erafjel and tdziemia

can you post a picture of the one piece with comparable quality tdziemia? when was it auctioned?

Yep good point @j1m. It seems to be feline and rampant, but I'm not 100% sure that it is a lion. Maybe a panther? I'll need to research that a little bit.


I have a similar piece to post today, but thought I'd include an early map of the city of Salzburg from within this general timeframe. Here is a little information from the writeup by the seller:

good point, in the Arabic world it was called the "dog dollar" instead of "lion dollar"

last image from 1575/6 (detail of obverse of early Leeuwendaalders)
a picture is worth a thousand words

I'm loving those siege coins!

Here is a Groschen from the German Free City of Hildesheim dated 1574 AD:

I will squeeze in this 1574 demi-ecu Philippe / halve Philipsdaalder of Brabant that features one of the villains in 1c5d's Dutch independence saga.



..and follow by starting 1573 with this denar struck in Gdansk.



Sigismund II had died in July, 1572, and the election of Henry of France as the first elected monarch of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth was concluded in September 1573. This city issue is considered an interregnum type, and the only coin struck in Polish territory between 1572 and 1577.
Henry would arrive at the royal castle in Krakow in January 1574, and be gone by mid-year (I geuss he didn't like the food?)

1573

Second year of the second revolt, which was most intense in Holland and Zeeland. The significant monetary fact in this period was the rebel decision, officially announced in the plakkaat of 7 February 1573, to put counterstamps on one face of the silverpieces in circulation. These were mostly Philipsdaalders (or parts - ecu Philippe) and Bourgondische Kruisdaalders (ecu de Bourgogne), but also foreign silver: thalers from Germany, shillings from England ....

The stamps on the Philipsdaalders were typically punched in the neck of the king, symbolic for the war waged against him. Old non-stamped coins were ordered to be exchanged for new (stamped) pieces: for 9 old one received 8 new (that had a 12% higher face value). The profit of this operation went to wages of the rebel army and is estimated to be ±250,000 guilders. About 90% of all surviving counterstamped pieces are the type stamped in Holland (small lion), the remaining 10% are stamps from Zeeland (lion in water).

Below a stamp from Holland (small lion) with as host coint a half Philipsdaalder 1573 from the province of Holland. The date of the host coin must be older than (or equal to) the moment of stamping.



Below a series of other stamped coins, including a host coint a half Philipsdaalder 1574 from the province of Holland. This is evidence for the fact that the stamping continued well into 1574.



Counterstamp ('Klop') province of Holland lion;
Host coins:
A) Philipsdaalder Vlaanderen, 1558;
B) Philipsdaalder Overijssel, 1563,
C) Bourgondische kruisdaalder, Brabant, Antwerp mint 1568
D) Halve Philipsdaalder Holland 1574 (!);
E) 1/5th Philipsdaalder Overijssel 1567

Counterstamp ('Klop') province of Zeeland lion standing in water ; host coin:
F) 1/10th Philipsdaalder Gelderland 1562

for those who understand Dutch: below the link to an outstanding article about these counterstamps: https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningku...80/1980g.pdf