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421, Lot: 726. Estimate $200.
Sold for $170. 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. Pewter 12 Stube Klippe (28x27mm, 13.96 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). VF, toned, traces of green deposits.


Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.7032 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 754 (there erroneously noted as silver).

The Gemini piece (also a later strike) hammered $1900 on an estimate of $1200