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Beginning of the year 1750
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Silver medal. Obverse: the Netherlands, depicted as a woman with a liberty cap on a spear and an olive branch and an offering bowl, sits under a fruit-bearing orange tree; at her feet a lion with a bundle of arrows; with her right arm she leans on an altar within an inscription; section: inscription.
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Credit lineAanvang van het jaar 1750. 1750. Johan George Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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