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22½ Stuivers (Sols de Hollande) = 50 Sols de France
| Issuer | Municipaliteit der Stad Alkmaar |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1601-1810) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided typeset letterpress issue enclosed within a decorative border of repeating ornamental units. The heading 'Vryheid, Gelykheid, Broederschap' appears at the top, above the central legend 'RECEPISSE' in large type, with the dual-currency denomination expressed as '22½ stuivers Hollandsch' and '22½ Sols de Holl: / 50 Sols de France'. The body text in Dutch commits the Municipality of the City of Alkmaar to redeem the note at par value in Provincial Receipts of Holland, dated 'Alkmaar den 7 April 1795, het eerste Jaar der Bataafsche Vryheid', with two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Num. 211 Vryheid, Gelykheid, Broederschap. RECEPISSE 22½ stuivers Hollandsch 22½ Sols de Holl: 50 Sols de France De Municipaliteit der Stad Alkmaar belooft de inwisseling van deze Recepiste tegen gelyke waarde in een of meer Provinciale Recepissen van Holland. Alkmaar den 7 April 1795, het eerste Jaar der Bataafsche Vryheid. |
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This note dates to a moment of acute administrative confusion. The Batavian Revolution of January 1795 had just dismantled the old Dutch Republic, but French Revolutionary forces were present in force and French currency was circulating alongside Dutch. The denomination — expressed simultaneously in stuivers and sols — reflects that monetary overlap directly: the municipal government of Alkmaar was issuing scrip that had to function in both systems at once.
Municipal emergency issues of this period are among the most ephemeral paper money produced in the Netherlands. Printed and redeemed locally, they rarely travelled far and were frequently destroyed once the immediate liquidity crisis passed. Survivors are uncommon precisely because they were never meant to last.