NETHERLANDS Broekstuk (Trouser Piece) 1814-1872 Zeeland. Silver Decoration similar to Ducaton Coinage. Sehr Schön

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1820s, Netherlands, Zeeland. Silver Trouser Piece (Broekstuk) similar to Ducaton Coinage.

Mint Place: Uncertain private jeweller work.
Mint Year: ca. 1814-1872 (judging by the hallmark)
Condition: Toned, with a few digs, otherwise about XF for thiis item type!
Denomination: Broekstuk (Trouser Piece) - Imitating the ever popular Silver Ducaton coinage of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
Material: Silver
Weight: 26.96gm
Diameter: 67mm


Obverse: Crowned shield with dutch arms, supported by crowned lions. Six stylized arrows between arabesques below. Legend around within border of pellets and incised dfloral decoration. Official duty counterstamp (head of Athena/Minerva left, used between 1814 and 1872) at 4 o'clock.
Legend: CRESCUNT CONCORDIA - RES . PARVAE

Reverse: Suspension loop in the middle, otherwise blank (as usual for a trouser piece).


Worn in the regional costumes of Zeeland, Walcheren, trouser pieces like this wre used around 1800s-1870s. Connected at the back with a suspension loop, this king of trouser pieces (broekstukken) were used to close the trousers. A rather early specimen, scarcely offered and with a neat coin-like motive, imitating the ever popular silver ducaton coinage ot the Netherlands.

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