Dutch, Customs Seal, Animal Seal, 409

Dutch Customs, Animal Seal, 409, Image & Found by Gerard de Weger.
Found in the Netherlands, ?mm.

ACC / No / 409 // arms of the Netherlands

A customs tail tag for exported cattle. The coarse brown hair of the animal has been trapped in the rivet.

From Jan van Oostveen, "It was only used for the tail and not for the ear. ... from authentic documentation from the mid-19th century where it is mentioned how these seals were used. [Scheffer, D.H., 1909. De Geslachtswet. Amsterdam.]" See Oostveen, J. van, 2019, Tax seals used in The Netherlands as proof that 'accijns op het geslacht' was paid.

Another idea put forward by Gerard de Weger is that the fibre is from coconut matting and that these seals were attached to that. He has also supplied the following, "The A C is for Accijns = taxes, G = Goederen = goods, the figure is a document number. Backside is a lion with crown from Holland it started in 1815 the start of Kingdom Willem I."

See Metal detecting and identification in the Netherlands and Belgium for more details about these seals.