Dutch advertising pieces depicting coins

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Flanders, double groat (Braspenning) 1409, Gent mint, off-metal strike.

Tournament helmet with helmet sign heraldic lily above arms of Burgundy (left) and Flanders (right) IOHanneS:DVX:BVRGvdiae:&:COMes:FLANDRIE - John duke of Burgundy and count of Flanders, Deschamps de Pas plate X number 26, De Mey -, Vh G2651 (var). The Johannes of this beauty is John the fearless

Peter

[Arminius]

I suppose not struck 1409 - a modern token issue or restrike?

[malj1]

I too found a nice coin in a junk tray for 50cents.

its available....

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Must have been the same dealer, Mal. This is Vh G281, De Witte 358. I hear your version, with small flowers between the legs of the cross, is somewhat less scarce now. Perhaps a small lot has been found? This is always the risk you are running with medieval coins. Meanwhile, we are lucky that others didn't recognise these fine finds.

Peter

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I don't think I fooled anyone. Good for you! This is one of a series of 5 medalets used in the 1970's for an advertising campaign for peanuts. Van Nelle is better known for its coffee and tea products. I didn't even know they did peanuts also. I guess it's frustrating for the marketeers of a food company not to sell anything containing an overload of fat or sugar

Here is the second of three in the series: a snaphaanschelling 1506-1555. Snaphaan is an early firing mechanism for a musket. Not sure what the connection with the coin is. Schelling has the same root as shilling. It denotes a coin of 6 stuivers (12 groot) The design is based on Delmonte 516, Van der Chijs 18.38. The legend is KA°ROL°DVX°GELR°IVL°CO°ZV or Charles (V) duke of Gelre (and) Jülich count of Zutphen. In the exergue is GEL

Peter

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Here is number three, a coin of the independent Netherlands, though you wouldn't know it by looking at the design, an imperial German eagle with local breast shield. This is Delmonte 1071, Verkade 89.1, KM12. Arendsdaalder of 60 groot (30 stuivers) 1602-1619, Middelburg mint. Arend is an eagle and daalder has the same root as Thaler in German, dollar in English. The legend is SI.DEVS.NOBISCVM.QVIS.CONtra.NOS - if god is with us, who is against us.

I also attached the common reverse of these "off-metal strikes" (bronze-clad iron).

Peter

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Nobody will think it's genuine, but the mere thought of a bank giving away money is fun. The bank in question is AmRo bank (now ABN-AmRo.) Other advertising medals of this issuer are local. This one may have been national. The obverse seems loosely based on RPC 620, where the portrait of Octavianus was taken for that of Caesar.

Peter

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AmRo bank again, but this is a local issue. It celebrates the second siege of Leiden by Habsburg forces in 1574. The Habsburg army was defeated by cold and rising water. The failure of the sieges of Alkmaar and Leiden broke a string of successful sieges and mass executions. After Leiden, the Habsburgs would never recover. The independence of the Netherlands was at last recognised in 1648.

The relief of the city is celebrated each year on 3rd October. During the siege, paper "coins" of 28 stuivers were issued to keep the soldiers happy. The design of the medallion is based on this issue. Legends are HAEC LIBERTATIS ERGO (all for freedom's sake) and GODT BEHOEDE LEYDEN (May god save Leiden). An etch of the original is below* The text AMRO BANK 1974 is hidden in the (over-)decoration.

Peter

* (nl) Noodgeld tijdens het beleg van Leiden, 1574 - https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/RP_P_OB_75_175. Rijksmuseum - http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.344176. Public Domain Mark - http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

[Henk]

Another example, also issued by the AMRO bank in Maastricht in 1982. Metal is tin and diameter 30 mm. The reverse prictures the obverse of a coin issued during the siege of 1579 by Spanish troops under command of Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma. Three values, in copper, were issued with this design: 40, 16 and 8 Stuivers.

The text reads in full: PROTEGE DOMINE POPULU TUUM PROP NOMI TUI GLORIAM (Lord protect your people for the glory of your name)
This medal was issued as a commemorative of the opening of the refurbished district office of the bank located at Helmstraat 2 in Maastricth

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For inspiration: other tokens that could be mentioned in this thread are (Kooij catalogue numbers):
RO 039.1, 076.1
RS 001.1-10, 006.3, 006.5
RZ 003F, 026G.1, 027A.1, 076B.1, 084A.1, 089C.1 (doubtful), 153A.1, 174A.1 (doubtful)

Peter