Netherlands 1818 10 gulden
This specimen was lot 3220 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2017), where it sold for $14,687.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. 10 Gulden, 1818. NGC MS-64. VERY RARE first year of issue for the type. All the more impressive in this high state of preservation showing no circulation wear and only the most trivial of contact marks. Toned a pleasing medium golden orange over fully lustrous surfaces. The finest certified example by a full three points. Very desirable and would be a great coup to the collector of Dutch coinage. Ex: Stack's Sale of the Clifford T. Weihman Collection of Gold Coins of the World. October 18-20, 1951, Lot #391." This type was struck in Utrecht and Brussels 1818-40. The portrait is of William I, first king of the independent kingdom of the Netherlands. Previous kings included Louis Napoleon (1806-10), puppet of Napoleon, and Napoleon himself (1810-14). When the kingdom of the Netherlands was reconstituted in 1815 under the prince of Orange, the coinage was reformed with the gulden as the base unit. The ten gulden was 4.3% heavier than the contemporary French twenty francs.
Recorded mintage: unknown but a rare date.
Specification: 6.729 g, 0.900 fine gold, .194 troy oz AGW, edge lettered GOD ZY MET ONS.
Catalog reference: Fr-327; KM-56; Delm-1183, Sch-174.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.* Peters, T., J. Scheper and J. Mevius, Muntalmanak 2018, 35e editie, Amsterdam: Nederlandse vereniging van munthandelaren, 2017.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, The January 2017 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Richard Stuart Collection, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2016.
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