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French encased postage stamp post WW1

 

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Spanish civil war encased postage stamp

 

Faroe Islands 1941 minted at the royal mint and minus the danish heart mint mark

 

1643 Bristol halfcrown. Early type with flat crown. Morrieson C-9. ex-
W Talbot Ready 668pt, Sotheby 18/11/1920
G Hamilton Smith 314, Glendining 24/5/1927
R C Lockett 3493, Glendining 4/11/1958
N Asherson 91, SCA 6 11/10/1979
With Baldwin 1988, from client 810
SCA 124 18/11/1997, lot 2214
A Morris
P A Christensen

 

Siege of LEIDEN during the Dutch 80 Years' War against their Spanish overlords

After taking Harlem on 13 July 1573 but failing to take Alkmaar, the Spanish commander, the Duke of Alba, sent his officer Francisco de Valdez to attack the southern rebel territory, starting with Leiden. The siege began on 21 Aug. 1573. The defences were strong and the soil too soft to dig trenches. Louis of Nassau, William the Silent's brother, assembled an army in Germany to relieve the city. Valdez lifted the siege in April 1574 to face the invading rebel troops, but Sancho d'Avila reached them first and defeated them on the Mookerheide on 14 April 1574. Louis was killed. The city was besieged a second time on 26 May by Valdez, again without any result. The city was finally liberated by the Dutch irregular pirates known as the Sea Beggars on October 3, 1574. after some of the land had been flooded.

During the siege Leiden issued a variety of emergency siege money.

Copper Siege 1/2 Stuiver n.d. (1573-4)




Paper Siege 1/4 Gulden (5 Stuiver) with Holland c/m

The production of paper gulden and 1/4 Gulden under a 23 Dec. 1573 ordinance started in 1574. The paper coins were made from recycled books, mainly Catholic prayer books (the religion of the enemy Spaniards). Forgeries appeared within 4 weeks. The town decided to control all the coins. Good coins were counter stamped with the dies they had handy: in this case the Holland lion c/m which the Holland rebel government used in 1573/4 to increase the value of silver coins by 1/8 to pay the troops fighting the Spaniards. They found 22 forgeries for the 1 gulden and 22 for the 1/4 gulden. Good paper money was changed for regular immediately after the end of the first siege on 27 March 1574.

 

Germany FRANKENTHAL Uniface Siege 15 Batzenklippe 1623

At the start of the 30 Years war, the Emperor had defeated Friedrich, the Elector Palatine, the Protestant choice as King of Bohemia (and James I of England's son-in law) at the Battle of White Mountain on 8 Nov. 1620. In January he placed him under the Imperial ban which made him an outlaw and his lands subject to seizure. Some English troops under Sir Horace Vere had been sent from the Netherlands to help Friedrich. Vere put a garrison in Frankenthal under Sir John Burroughs. When the Palatinate campaign began, a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba laid siege to the city and its mostly English garrison in Sept. 1621. Warned of the approach of a Protestant army commanded by Mansfeld, Córdoba raised the siege on 12 October. However. in the summer of 1622 the Imperial army returned under Don Fransisco Verdugo and laid siege to Frankenthal again. The siege lasted until March 20, 1623, when King James I ordered the city to surrender.

 

Another coin from the same siege

Germany FRANKENTHAL Uniface Siege 2 Guldenklippe 1623

This one has the legend GOTT x IST* VNSER* ECKSTEIN (God is our cornerstone)* and a small punch below with Z (value)

 

BRAUNAU Ludwig Friedrich von Saxe-Hildburghausen Uniface Silver 1 Gulden Siege Klippe (60 Kreuzer) 1743

Braunau is today in Upper Austria, close to the Bavarian border, but in 1740 it was part of Bavaria. When the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) broke out, Austrian troops quckly occupied a large part of Bavaria. Braunau was besieged but relieved in 1742. However, the forces of Charles of Lorraine, Maria Theresia of Austria's brother-in-law, defeated the Bavarians at Simbach (across the river Inn from Braunau) on 9 May 1743. Some of the troops under the command of Ludwig-Friedrich of Saxe-Hildburghausen took refuge in Braunau, where they were besieged. Ludwig Friedrich struck coins to pay the troops, first from melting silver plate but then many more in lead. The city fell on 30 June 1743, although, unknown to the belligerents, the Duke of Bavaria had in fact already ceded Braunau to Austria in negotiations with Charles of Lorraine on 27 June.

Obv.: L_ AVXILIVM_ F_ BRAVHNAV._ Z A NOBIS. S. (LFHZS = Ludwig Friedrich Herzog (duke) Z(u) S (axony) We help Braunau ) Crown dividing 17 43 over oval arms of Saxe-Hildburghausen (crown of rue over horizontal bars) , below IM (9 over MAY) VF (= Im Vertrauen Fest (firmly in confidence, the duke's motto)


Braunau is better known today as Hitler's birthplace.

 

Netherlands ZIERIKZEE Besieged by Spanish army (28 Sept.1575 - 2 July 1576) Uniface Tin Siege Daalderklippe (32 stuiver) 1575 (November)

Early in the Dutch War of Independence against Spain, Zierikzee, like most Zeeland towns, was captured by the Dutch guerilla forces known as the Sea Beggars in 1572 and given a seat in the States of Zeeland. In 1575 the Spanish laid siege first to Woerden and then in Sept. 1575 to Zierikzee to try and separate the provinces pf Zeeland and Holland. Zierikzee held a strategic position on the island of Schouween-Duiveland. On 7 November the States authorized Zierikzee to strike emergency coinage to pay the garrison and for transactions in the town. The town guaranteed the exchange into regular coinage after the siege and the top stamp on the first issues has the city arms. On 23 November this guarantee was transferred to the States of Zeeland and the top stamp has the provincial arms, as on this coin. This tin variety of the silver Daalder of 48 stuiver circulated with a value of 32 Stuiver.

Obv.: 3 stamps: oval stamp with Zeeland arms (lion l. rising from sea); round stamp with cross fleury over ornamented shield with city arms (lion rampant l.); cartouche stamp with 1575

A second issue was authorized on 28 Feb. 1576.

 

My favorite part of numismatics is reading the stories behind these unique coins! Thanks for always taking the time to post.

 

Netherlands ZIERIKZEE Besieged by Spanish army (28 Sept.1575 - 2 July 1576) Silver Daalderklippe (48 stuiver) 1576 (July)

In 1576 the Dutch independence forces suffered some setbacks and the situation of the besieged in Zierikzee deteriorated. The city leaders opened negotiations with Mondragon, the Spanish commander. They reached a surrender agreement, signed on 29 June 1576, which allowed the Dutch army to leave by sea with their arms and baggage. However, the impoverished city, to avoid their town being plundered and sacked by the Spanish troops, had to agree to pay in stages an enormous ransom of 40,000 Daalder. Spanish troops entered the city on 2 July.

The citizens had to hand in their silver at the town hall and between 30 June and 12 July the city authorities struck a third issue of emergency coinage to pay the ransom, including this coin.

The inscription reads .REGIAE/MAt.RECON/CILIATA.(reconciled with his royal majesty) ZI/RIZEA.ZA /.IVLY.AO/.1576.

Of course, in reality they were certainly not reconciled. Spain would only recognize the independence of the Northern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, in 1648 in the Treaty of Münster, after 80 years of conflict.

 

Paper coins from Lille, purchased in Munich years ago.

 

Germany BREISACH 48 Kreuzer Siege Klippe n.d. (1633) Uniface variety with blank rev. 26 mm x 31 mm 16.37 g

During the 30 Years’ War the Imperial forces had to evacuate Alsace in 1632 and moved the government to Breisach. However, the two enemy generals, the Count Palatine (Rheingraf) Othon and Margrave Friedrich of Baden-Durlach, after first cutting off supplies using mobile contingents, then laid siege to Breisach on July 7, 1633. The commander of the fortress, Hannibal von Schauenburg, requisitioned from the bourgeoisie precious objects and metals and struck coins of necessity issued on 7 July 1633. On 16 Oct. 1633 a relief army commanded by the Duke of Feria, viceroy of Valencia, arrived and put the besiegers to flight.

 

Germany City of MINDEN Copper uniface 4 Mariengroschen Siege Klippe 1634 with city arms and value

During the Thirty Years' War the Swedes besieged Minden from 24 July 1634 until its capitulation on 20 Nov. 1634. The commander of the besieged forces, Colonel Waldecker, with the agreement of the city council, struck 'war money' from silver plate and then from copper.

 

That has my name all over it!

How have I missed this awesome thread!

@talerman , if any of those need new homes, who you gonna call . . .?

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My contribution to this topic. PCGS UNC details bent 1916 T German East Africa 15 Rupien. Struck in an emergency mint on a train carriage in Tabora, modern day Tanzania to pay for the local African troops. 75% pure gold with silver and copper in the mix. Few survived and are now highly sought after.