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Inauguration of William V, Prince of Orange-Nassau, as Hereditary Stadtholder of the Netherlands
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Silver medal. Obverse: bust of a man within a legend. Reverse: Hope, depicted as a woman with a liberty cap on a spear in her hand, to which a bundle of arrows is bound, lays her other hand on an open Bible lying on an altar before her, while a hand from the clouds holds a crown above her head, within a legend; edge: inscription.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineInhuldiging van Willem V, prins van Oranje-Nassau, als erfelijk stadhouder van de Nederlanden. 1766. Gerrit van Moelingen (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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