Oudenaarde

CNG 108, Lot: 1072. Estimate $3000. Sold for $10100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DUTCH REVOLT (Nederlandse Opstand), Low Countries. Oudenaarde. Blockaded by the Spanish under Alessandro Farnese, Duca di Parma, 1582. Tin 20 Stuiver Klippe (32x32mm, 15.41 g). DEVS SPES NRA, civic coat-of-arms; 20 · S · (mark of value) above 15 82 below; all within linear and pearl border; above, crowned Λ with annulets flanking stamp; rosette stops in legend / Blank. Vanhoudt I 264; Gelder, Noodmunten, 175; Maillet 2; Lasser –; CNM –. In NGC encapsulation, 4212884-003, graded AU 53.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.9331 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 583 (hammer 10,000 CHF on an estimate of 500 CHF).

The wealthy town of Oudenaarde became Protestant following the Reformation and allied itself with the city of Ghent against Charles V. The prolonged siege of 1582 resulted in the subsequent flight of merchants and nobles, resulting in the town to never recover to its former glory.