Pieter van Abeele

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Pieter van Abeele was a Dutch stamp cutter and coiner in Amsterdam around 1622 to 1677.

He perfected the technique of pressing hollow medals. He created the two sides of the medal separately and combined them with a ring of metal. His works are said to be the best of their time, and consist mostly of memorial and portrait medals. They depict several members of the House of Orange, admiral Maarten Tromp, Jan Wolfert van Brederode, Charles X of Sweden and Charles II of England. Also exist memorials of the destruction of the English fleet and the peace of 1667, as well as one showing the granting of the coat of arms to the city of Amsterdam by Count William II of Holland and Emperor Maximilian I.

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