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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 5302675, member: 89314&quot;]Netherlands&nbsp; AMSTERDAM&nbsp; Emergency Siege 5 Stuiver Klippe&nbsp; 1578&nbsp; Uniface</p><p><br /></p><p>After the Spanish Fury in Antwerp when troops destroyed 1,000 houses and killed 8,000 people (Nov.1575), the Catholic regions decided to cooperate with the rebellious Protestant regions in their resistance to Spain (Pacification of Ghent , Nov.8 1576). Pro-Spanish Amsterdam, firmly in the hands of a Catholic city council, refused to join the States of Holland. After long fruitless negotiations, the States decided to lay siege to Amsterdam in the last days of December 1577. The city capitulated on February 8, 1578 (Satisfaction of Amsterdam). Silver emergency coinage was issued on 5 Jan. 1578, but the value of the coins was increased by 25 % on 31 January.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Type with firesteel mintmark at top</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1223585[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Type with PG monogram mintmark at top</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1223586[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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