1082904 | NETHERLANDS. Overyssel. (15)78 CU 4 Stuivers. PCGS MS62BN (Brown). (Deventer shield arms). 78 • VRGEN * NECESS (shield) DAVEN (⁑ 30) ⁑ OC. Deventer arms within beaded circle. / S × IIII. Denomination in Roman numerals within beaded inner circle, scrolled border; (counterstamped). vG.143; CNM.2.12.88.

Struck during the Siege of the city of Deventer 1578.


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The siege of the city of Deventer by States troops under George van Lalaing, count of Rennenberg, took place from 3 August to 19 November 1578 during the Eighty Years' War. It was besieged in an attempt by the States-General of the Netherlands to better protect the regions of Holland and Utrecht from Spanish plundering. Since 1572 the city had been held by the German Polweiler-regiment for the Spanish Empire on behalf of Don John of Austria. After Lalaing had put into practice a number of pieces of strategic advice from Johan van den Kornput, the city was prepared to negotiate a surrender and on 19 November 1578 handed itself over to States troops. [Wikipedia].