The Nieuwerkerken hoard
Copper coins in Liege during the late 18th and early 19th
century
General background
• Little interest• Abundance of archival information and
normative texts• Near absence of information on coin finds,
hoards as well as isolated finds
The Prince-Bishopric of Liège
• Physical barrier within the Southern Low Countries
• Part of the Holy Roman Empire• Bound by the decisions of the Lower Rhenish-
Westphalian Circle
Date
• Post quem 1820• Very few 19th century coins• 1819/1820 the first copper coins of the young
United Kingdom of the Netherlands• 1825 Law prohibiting the circulation of French
coins
Composotion
• Post quem 1820• Very few 19th century coins• 1819/1820 the first copper coins of the young
United Kingdom of the Netherlands• 1825 Law prohibiting the circulation of French
coins
The coins
• Liège• Dutch Republic• Holy Roman Empire• Southern Low Countries• France• Sweden• Great Britain
Conclusion
1. Normative texts trying to enforce a domestic monopoly versus 30 % of foreign coins
2. Extremey large time span of three 3 centuries
3. Importance of the coins of the Holy Roman Empire
4. Apparent contradiction between complaints about excess and shortage of small change
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