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Auction 108  16 May 2018
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Lot 1100

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 5500 USD
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THIRTY YEARS' WAR (Dertigjarige Oorlog), Low Countries. Ariën-aan-de-Leie. Besieged by the Spanish, 1641. AR 2 Pond (32x32mm, 9.76 g). Dated 1641. LVD. XIII/REX PIVS/IVSTVS/INVICTVS./ARIAVNO AO/BIS OBSES./I64I. in seven lines / Blank. Van Loon II p. 254; Mailliet 4; Brause-Mansfeld II pl. 9, 1; Lasser 1197. In NGC encapsulation, 4212824-004,XF Details, graffiti.


Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.34370 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 649.

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).
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