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NETHERLANDS: AR medal (23.91g), ND (ca. 1640), Van Loon 1:160, Haarlem Printing Bicentennial Medal, sailing ship crashes through chain across harbor, VICIT VIM VIRTUS (virtue conquers strength)/city goddess at printing press, TYPOGRAPHIA at left marks the Bicentennial of Haarlem native Laurens Janszoon Coster, S C in left and right fields, respectively, with HARLEMUM in exergue, 36 mm, about VF. Laurens Janszoon Coster claimed to be the inventor of printing or movable type before Gutenburg.
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