Dutch, Customs Seal, Larger, 230, Image & Found by Jos Hagens.
Found in the Netherlands, 25mm, 13g.
Crowned lion armed & langued, holding in his dexter paw a sword and in the sinister paw seven arrows tight together, 230 to right // IN EN / UITGAANDE / REGTEN / EN ACCYNSEN
A Dutch Customs seal. One side depicts the crowned Dutch shield bearing the rampant lion of Holland* with 230 at right angle to the right. The other side has an inscription signifying in and outgoing rights and taxes.
*The arms, consisting of a crowned lion armed and langued, holding in his dexter paw a sword and in the sinister paw seven arrows tight together, were first used in The Dutch Republic of the Seven United Provinces from 1584 until 1796 when revolution replaced it. It was returned in its current form in 1815 by the first king of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, William I, who added the azure, billetty or with a lion rampant or of Nassau (blue shield, gold lion & billets) from his family arms. However the colour change of the background from red to blue cannot be seen on a lead impression although it is implied by the addition of horizontal lines and the only other visual difference is the billets from the house of Nassau (small rectangles on the background which are only faintly evident on some of the seals). This means the seals cannot be older than 1815.
