421, Lot: 725. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (Dreißigjähriger Krieg), Germany. Jülich. Dutch-held fortress besieged by the Spanish under Ambrosio Spínola, Marqués de los Balbases, 5 September 1621-3 February 1622. AR 12 Stube (35mm, 7.89 g). Later strike. Dated 1621. Large FP monogram (for Friedrich Pithan, governor of Jülich); (four pellets) I6 ZI (four pellets) and · IN GVL=/ BE LE= across field; G below / Blank. Mailliet –; cf. Brause-Mansfeld I, pl. 14, 11; Noss –; cf. Gemini VI, lot 926 (for type); cf. Künker 122, lot 4329 (issue with undertype visible). VF, toned, collector’s identification, CG /•, in India ink on obverse. Overstruck on a dicken of Lucern in Switzerland, dated [16]18 (cf. HMZ 2-635k [for type]).

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.7031 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 608.