Allegory of Coinage, Allegorical representation of the monetary system. In the center sits on a throne the female personification of the coin system or money, dressed in Eastern dress with bare breasts and a silver horn filled with gold coins on her lap. On the left Mercury with two slaves, in the background mining and melting furnaces for gold and silver. Two smiths or coin makers on the right. With her feet the personification treads a number of symbolic objects: mask, snake and purse. On the left a rooster in front of an obelisk with Hebrew letters and crowned by a portrait bust. On a table next to the personification stands a scale in a black wooden box, slavery, serfs and slaves, Romeyn de Hooghe, 1670 - 1708, canvas, oil paint (paint), h 135 cm × w 178 cm d 8.3 cm
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