421, Lot: 721. Estimate $75. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DUTCH REVOLT (Nederlandse Opstand), Low Countries. Maastricht. Besieged by the Spanish, 1579. CU 40 stuiver (40mm, 19.65 g, 9h). Emission of June 1579. Dated 1579. Hand holding raised sword; (two stars)/TRAIEC/AB · HIS : OBSES/PRO : IVS : CAV/SÆ DEFE SIONE; in exergue below cornice, XXXX (mark of value) / PROTE · POPV · TV · PROP · NO · TVI · GLO, civic coat-of-arms surmounted by crested helmet. Vanhoudt I 250; Gelder, Noodmunten, 153; Mailliet 1; Lasser 1156; CNM 2.33.6. Near VF, brown surfaces, holed for suspension.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.7087 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 569 (part of).