Watch List notes:

NETHERLANDS: HOLLAND: Dutch Republic, AR medal, 1640, Van Loon I, 160, 32mm, Municipal Presence Token for the City of Haarlem; female figure representing Typography, her right hand holding a laurel wreath, and her left resting upon the bar-handle of a printing-press with rays of sunlight descending upon her head. Upon her right a stone pillar rises, emblematical of durability, upon which is engraved the word TYPOGRAHIA and over the pillar is the letter S, and over the press the letter C, for Senatus Consulto, in exergue, HARLEMUM, the city name in Latin // a ship in full sail, with a curiously notched beak at her prow, is breaking the heavy chains drawn across the entrance of a port (Damietta). On each side is a fortress where waves the Turkish flag, and whence the enemy is showering down arrows, above is the motto of the city of Haarlem, VICIT VIM VIRTUS (virtue conquers violence), the arms of the city at bottoming, PCGS graded MS62. These medals were used as "jetons de présence," one being presented to each Councillor as he entered the Council Chamber [of the Town Council at Haarlem]. They were afterwards exchanged for currency, at a certain time and at a fixed rate. This continual circulation accounts for the very bad condition in which they are mostly found. This is an unusually nice example!

Estimate: 150-250 USD