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Capture of Bonn, Huy, Limburg, Rheinberg and Geldern, medal distributed in Alkmaar to participants of a lottery for the Alms House
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Capture of Bonn, Huy, Limburg, Rheinberg and Geldern, medal distributed in Alkmaar to participants of a lottery for the Alms House

Martin Smeltzing · 1703 · striking (metalworking); silver (metal)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Silver medal. Obverse: female figure with a hat, a spear with three crowns attached and a money bag, next to a Dutch soldier with a bundle of arrows and a sword surrounded by a victory wreath, and a river god with a trident and Mercury's staff; in the background three cities on a river and a fleet within an inscription, with an inscription above. Reverse: two lottery drums, with a naked child sitting between them holding a lottery ticket in each hand; next to them two cornucopias, above them an angel with a scale and two lottery tickets within an inscription, with an inscription above.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineInname van Bonn, Huy, Limburg, Rheinberg en Geldern, penning te Alkmaar uitgereikt aan de deelnemers van een loterij voor het Aalmoezeniershuis. 1703. Martin Smeltzing. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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