Deventer 1672 daalder
This specimen was lot 84 in Schulman auction 388 (Amsterdam, December 2025), where it sold for €1,900 (about US$2,677 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"Nooddaalder van 30 stuiver, DEVENTER, 1672, Silver, Noodmunten, geslagen naar aanleiding van het beleg door Bernard van Galen, de Bisschop van Munster 1672., STEDELIJKE MUNTSLAG TE DEVENTER op vierkant plaatje. Gekroonde Deventer adelaar, daaronder aparte stempel A° 1672. Kz. glad. RR Goudkleurig gepatineerd. Vrijwel prachtig. (uniface siege dollar of thirty stuivers, city of Deventer, struck in response to the siege by Bernard van Galen, the Bishop of Münster, in 1672. Obverse: MUNICIPAL COINAGE OF DEVENTER on a square plate. Crowned Deventer eagle; below it, a separate punch-mark: A[NN]° 1672. Reverse: plain.)"
Half, quarter and eighth dollars were also struck. Bernard von Galen attacked the Netherlands at the behest of Louis XIV and succeeded in capturing Bredevoort, Deventer and Zwolle. He then unsuccessfully besieged Groningen; that defeat caused him to retreat from the Netherlands and leave the war. Numista hints that the siege coinage was actually made after the surrender of the town.
Recorded mintage: 530 per Numista.
Specification: 28 g, 0.925 fine silver, 35 mm square, this specimen 28.42 g.
Catalog reference: KM 73, Maill. 37.12; vL. III 63/58.1; Delm. 696.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Korchnak, Lawrence C., Siege Coins of the World, 1453-1902, Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2021.
- van der Wis, Jan, and Tom Passon, Catalogus van de Nederlandse Munten geslagen sind bet aantreden van Philips II tot aan het einde van de Bataafse Republiek (1555-1806), 2nd ed., Apeldoorn, Netherlands: Omni-Trading b.v., 2009.
- [1]Absil, Andrew, Olle Cederholm, Erik de Visser and Rik van Noorloos, Schulman sale 388: 145 Year Jubilee Sale, Amsterdam: Schulman b.v., 2025.
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