CNG 108, Lot: 1041. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DUTCH REVOLT (Nederlandse Opstand), Low Countries. Brussel. Blockaded by the Spanish under Alessandro Farnese, Duca di Parma, 1579-1580. AR 36 Stuiver Klippe (34x34mm, 25.05 g). Dated 1579. (rosette) PERFER • ET • OBDVRA (rosette) BRVXELLA, civic coat of arms, · 36 · ST · (mark of value above), 15 79 flanking arms / Blank. Vanhoudt I 255; Gelder, Noodmunten, 157; Delmonte, Argent 216; Maillet 2; Lasser 1160. In NGC encapsulation, 3356451-007, graded AU 58. Toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.9364 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 570.

As part of the Spanish attempt to quell the Dutch Revolt, Alessandro Farnese laid siege to the city of Brussel. An important economic center and of importance to the rebels, Brussel held out for almost a year. Unlike his predecessor, however, Farnese did not engage in a brutal reprisal against the city’s inhabitants.