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1 Daalder 3 stamps, star at top
| Issuer | Haarlem, Siege of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Value | 1 Daalder (3⁄2) |
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| Obverse description | Crude square klippe flan with bevelled corners, struck from improvised dies during the siege. At centre, the arms of Haarlem displayed on a shaped shield: a vertical sword surmounted by a cross, flanked by six small five-pointed stars arranged around the blade. Above the shield, a separate stamp depicting a star above a crescent moon within a small escutcheon. Below the shield, a rectangular cartouche stamp bearing the date 1572 in incuse numerals. The overall composition reflects the emergency production conditions of the besieged city, with three distinct punch applications visible on the plain silver field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Haarlem held out against Spanish forces for seven months before surrendering in July 1573 — one of the most brutal sieges of the Dutch Revolt. This obsidional piece was struck from silver plate or melted ecclesiastical metal, as was common practice when a besieged city needed to pay its garrison and the normal supply of coinage had long since dried up. The three countermarks indicate successive authorizations, a procedural necessity when the city council needed to vouch for improvised currency whose intrinsic value could not be guaranteed by normal assay.