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Since Twenty-Five Years of Peace in the Netherlands
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Since Twenty-Five Years of Peace in the Netherlands

Nicolaas van Swinderen · 1738 · 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: Netherlands, depicted as a woman with an open gospel on her lap and in her right hand a liberty cap on a spear, to which an olive branch and a palm branch are attached, seated before the closed Temple of Janus; with her feet she tramples a sword and a standard; beside her a crowned lion with a quiver of arrows in its claws and the bound god of war; above it Fame blowing on two trumpets decorated with banners with the inscription XXV within inscription; section: date. Reverse: seven crowned coats of arms connected with ribbons within inscription.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSedert vijfentwintig jaar vrede in de Nederlanden. 1738. Nicolaas van Swinderen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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