Image Information
Type | Medal |
Title | 1686, Leiden town medal by Johannes Smeltzing |
Date | 1686 |
Country | Netherlands |
Side | obverse |
Composition | gold |
Diameter | 46mm |
Weight | 23.75 gms |
Description | Provenance: J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, Vol. II, nr. 577; Townmark of Leiden surrounded by the family crests of the 4 'burgemeesters' of 1685 (Vromans, Van der Maes, van Assendelft, Van de Velde) who organised an event for the French protestants that fled to Holland because of the edict of Nantes. |
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