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Country: Republic of the Seven United Netherlands or Dutch Republic (Netherlands)
William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau, stadtholder (1711-1747-1751)
Type: Medal
Years: 1747
Composition: Gilded Bronze
Weight: 16.4 g
Diameter: 40 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Shape: Round
Grade: XF/AU (Damaged edge & Hole)
Orientation: Coin alignment ↑↓
Commemorative issue:
Inauguration of William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau, as the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
Obverse:
Prince Willem IV riding a horse trotting to the right. Around, his name and titles with the date of his accession.
Lettering:
❀ • WIL• CAR• HEN• FRIZO• PRINS• VAN ORANIEN & NASSAU• 3 MAY• 1747•
Translation:
Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, Prince of Orange and Nassau, 3 May 1747.
Reverse:
Coat of arms of Netherlands (a lion grasping a sword in one hand and a bundle of arrows in the other) in a frame decorated with a ribbon bearing the old Latin motto of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Legend around, with the functions of Willem IV in the Netherlands.
Lettering:
❀ • STADHOUDER• ADM.L• & KAP.n• GENERAAL• VAN PROVINTIEN
"CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT"
(Stadhouder, admiraal en kapitein-generaal van de 7 Provinciën)
Translation:
Stadtholder, Admiral and Captain General of the 7 Provinces.
"Our union is our strength"
Edge:
Smooth.
Comments:
William IV (Willem Karel Hendrik Friso; 1 September 1711 – 22 October 1751) was Prince of Orange from birth and the first hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751. During his whole life he was furthermore ruler of the Principality of Orange-Nassau within the Holy Roman Empire.
William succeeded his father as Stadtholder of Friesland and also, under the regency of his mother until 1731, as Stadtholder of Groningen. In 1722 he was elected Stadtholder of Guelders. The four other provinces of the Dutch Republic:, Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht and Overijssel had in 1702 decided not to appoint a stadtholder after the death of stadtholder William III, issuing the history of the Republic into a period that is known as the Second Stadtholderless Period. In 1747 those four provinces also accepted William as their stadtholder. (Wikipedia)
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