Watch List notes:

DUTCH REVOLT (Nederlandse Opstand), Low Countries. Breda. Besieged by the States-General, 1577. PB 3 Stuiver (23.5mm, 16.03 g). Emission of September 1577. Later strike. Dated 1577. (triple pellets) IN • NECESSITATE • 1577, BRE/DÆ in two lines; all within circular linear and pearl borders; coat-of-arms of Orange stamp above BRE / Blank. Cf. Vanhoudt I 244 (for issue in silver); cf. Gelder, Noodmunten, 107 (same); cf. Mailliet 6 (same); Lasser –; cf. CNM 2.09.24 (same) and illustration; Elsen 91, lot 1121. VF, toned, a few marks, minor areas of weakness at periphery.


Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.9342 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 521.