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Beginning of 1745, with the hope that the war will be ended this year
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Silver medal. Obverse: Holland, depicted as a woman with a liberty cap on a spear and Mercury's staff, sitting in the Dutch garden among merchant goods; beside her, a lion with a bundle of arrows and a Bible on an altar within the legend. Reverse: the god of war with a sword in hand attempts to open the Temple of Janus from within, while an arm from the clouds with a bundle of arrows tries to prevent this within the legend; incuse: date.
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Credit lineAanvang van 1745, op de hoop dat de oorlog dit jaar beeindigd wordt. 1744. Martinus Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
