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Inauguration of the new town hall in Amsterdam (commemorated in 1659)
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Silver medal. Obverse: Mercury with staff and liberty cap above the new town hall; in the foreground Amphion playing the lyre within a border with an inscription and a crowned coat of arms. Reverse: Amsterdam's maiden with an imperial crown seated in a garden between two lions, each holding three coats of arms, in the background a view of Amsterdam on the IJ, above which three cherubs with banners and trumpets illuminated by heavenly light, within a border of sixty coats of arms.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineInwijding van het nieuwe stadhuis te Amsterdam (herdacht in 1659). 1659. Juriaen Pool (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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