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1 Daalder 3 stamps, lion at top
| Issuer | Haarlem, Siege of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Shape | Square with angled corners |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain and unworked silver surface, showing no design, legend, or decorative element whatsoever, typical of klippe siege money struck on cut silver planchets with only a single working face. The surface exhibits natural flow lines and hammer marks consistent with hand-struck emergency coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haarlem held out against Spanish forces for seven months during the early stages of the Eighty Years' War, finally capitulating in July 1573 after a brutal siege that reduced the population to starvation. This daalder was struck from emergency silver during that siege — the three countermarks indicate revaluations applied to whatever bullion or plate could be seized and pressed into coin. Siege money of this type was produced under desperate conditions with no fixed die standard, which accounts for the wide weight variation seen across surviving specimens.