fjt_02982 - NETHERLANDS - UNITED PROVINCES - ZEELAND PAYS-BAS - PROVINCES-UNIES - ZÉLANDE 1647
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Type : PAYS-BAS - PROVINCES-UNIES - ZÉLANDE
Date: 1647
Metal : silver
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : TIMIDE. AC. PRUDENTER.
Obverse description : Un vaisseau sous toutes voiles, allant à droite sur une mer semée d'écueils.
Obverse translation : Avec timidité et prudence.
Reverse
Reverse legend : LUCTOR. ET. EMERGO. 16-47.
Reverse description : Écu de la Zélande couronné.
Reverse translation : Je combats et m'élève.
Commentary
Par la légende d'avers, la Zélande engage les Ambassadeurs au Congrès de Münster à être prudents.
By the obverse legend, Zeeland urges the Ambassadors at the Congress of Münster to be prudent.
By the obverse legend, Zeeland urges the Ambassadors at the Congress of Münster to be prudent.
Historical background
NETHERLANDS - UNITED PROVINCES - ZEELAND
(1581-1795)
On January 23, 1579, the five provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland and Friesland United Provinces formed a federal state during the Union of Utrecht. The province of Overijssel joined the five provinces in the same year, that of Groningen in 1594. In July 1581, the deputies of the northern provinces declared Philip II deposed. In 1795, the French temporarily instituted the Batavian Republic which replaced the United Provinces..
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