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[[Image:SB821-41224o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 41224]]
[[Image:SB821-41224r.jpg|300px|thumb|photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC]]

This specimen was lot 41224 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $2,640. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Netherlands|NETHERLANDS]]. Brabant - Breda. Uniface Siege 60 Stuivers Klippe, 1625. PCGS EF-45. Dimensions: 28 x 29 mm. Siege of Breda coinage. Deeply toned with an exceptionally sharp circular center punch as well as four accompanying smaller punches at the angles. Both elusive and representing the highest denomination struck, this example represents a great opportunity for the advanced collector of siege issues. Struck by the city of Breda during the Spanish siege that began on August 28, 1624 and concluded on June 5, 1625 with the Spanish emerging victorious. The victory marked one of the last major victories for the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War." As a key stronghold on the border between [[Netherlands, Spanish|Brabant]] and [[Netherlands, Holland|Holland]], Breda was heavily involved in the Eighty Years War between the Dutch and the Spanish. Held by the Dutch, it was captured by the Spanish in 1581, retaken by the Dutch in 1590, besieged and captured by the Spanish in 1624-25 (resulting in the uniface siege coinage shown here) and retaken by the Dutch in 1637. The Spanish formally ceded it by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, and it was part of the United Provinces until the arrival of French Revolutionary armies in 1792. This siege coin was accompanied by one, [[Breda 1625 2 stuiver|two]], [[Breda 1625 20 stuiver|twenty]] and [[Breda 1625 40 stuiver|forty stuivers]].

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' silver.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-6.1. 

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* 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 Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, ''Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713,'' Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

''Link to:''
* [[Breda 1625 2 stuiver]] siege coinage
* [[Breda 1625 20 stuiver]] siege coinage
* [[Breda 1625 40 stuiver]] siege coinage
* [[Brabant 1626 liard KM-63]] struck for Breda
* [[Coins and currency dated 1625]]

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