Triumphal arch of the coin (back); entry from Ferdinand in Antwerp in 1635 (no. 36); Arcus Monetalis Pars Posterior. Backside the triumphal arch of the coin, arranged at the start of the Sint-Michielsstraat or Kloosterstraat. Arch in the form of Mount Potosí in Bolivia or Peru where Spain won a lot of silver. On top of the mountain Hercules kills the dragon in the garden of the Hesperides while Hispania (Spain) picks the apples from the tree. Left and right of mountain miners in the silver mines. In the middle of the God Vulcanus. Signature upper left: p. 155. Sheet No 36 in a set of 43 plates
Triumphal arch of the coin (back); entry from Ferdinand in Antwerp in 1635 (no. 36); Arcus Monetalis Pars Posterior. Backside the triumphal arch of the coin, arranged at the start of the Sint-Michielsstraat or Kloosterstraat. Arch in the form of Mount Potosí in Bolivia or Peru where Spain won a lot of silver. On top of the mountain Hercules kills the dragon in the garden of the Hesperides while Hispania (Spain) picks the apples from the tree. Left and right of mountain miners in the silver mines. In the middle of the God Vulcanus. Signature upper left: p. 155. Sheet No 36 in a set of 43 plates that illustrate the publication of the arrival of the Cardinal Infant Ferdinand in Austria in Antwerp on April 17, 1635 as the new governor for the Spanish Netherlands.
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