Token picturing the periphery of an fortified city

Started by johnkooij, April 14, 2020, 03:09:22 PM

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johnkooij

This is a 29 mm brass token. Possibly picturing the dutch city Willemstad in Noord-Brabant ??
Who knows more?

FosseWay

The other side (without the star-shaped fortification) looks like a representation of the city's earliest incarnation - a roughly square earth bank or wall around a slightly offset crossroads. The challenge is to find a city that in Roman or similar times had the early layout and in medieval or later times, the more elaborate one ;)

Figleaf

If these are fortifications, the one on the right is a typical Bastide type, like Elburg in the Netherlands. The shape on the other side looks like a Vauban type fortress-city, with one of the points of the star formed by a military installation, surrounded by water. AFAIK, there was nothing like it in the Netherlands (Maastricht comes closest), but they do occur in what is now Belgium and, like the Bastides, can be found all over France.

Peter
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