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Forty stuiver, emergency coin from Pernambuco, struck during the siege on the order of the Dutch West India Company
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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One-sided, more or less rectangular, silver emergency coin. Obverse: within round pearl border: monogram of letters G, W and C under Roman numeral XXXX. Reverse: blank.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVeertig stuiver, noodmunt uit Pernambuco, geslagen tijdens het beleg op last van de Nederlandse Westindische Compagnie. 1654. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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