CNG 108, Lot: 1101. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (Dertigjarige Oorlog), Low Countries. Ariën-aan-de-Leie. Besieged by the Spanish, 1641. AR Pond (29x29mm, 4.74 g). Dated 1641. LVD. XIII/REX PIVS/IVSTVS/INVICTVS./ARIAVNO A^O/BIS OBSES./I64I. in seven lines / Incuse of obverse. Van Loon II p. 254; cf. Mailliet 4; Brause-Mansfeld II pl. 9, 1; cf. Lasser 1199 (example in tin). In NGC encapsulation, 4212824-006, graded XF 45.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.3439 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 651.

Located in the County of Artois, which became part of the Spanish Netherlands under the Union of Arras in 1579, Ariën-aan-de-Leie was besieged several times in 1641 by the Spanish and French during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659).