Bidspirit auction | An ancient and very rare

An ancient and very rare Dutch bronze token, depicting the uprising of the Dutch tribes against the Spanish occupation in the 16th century. 1578. On both sides of the medal are illustrations depicting the Dutch insurrection: the war of David and Goliath, and on the back a lion attacking a boar symbolizing the Netherlands insurrection against Spain. The Eighty Years' War had far-reaching military, political, socio-economic, religious and cultural effects on the Western European region. While the Spanish Empire and the Southern Low Countries along with it were economically and demographically destroyed, and deteriorated politically and economically, the Dutch Republic became a world commercial power and achieved a high level of prosperity for its upper and middle classes known as the Dutch Golden Age, despite persistent socio-economic, geographic and religious inequality and problems, such as Also internal and external political, military and religious conflicts.