Netherlands 1945-P gulden

Ponterio sale 173, lot 1577

This specimen was lot 1577 in Ponterio sale 173 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $2,115. The catalog description^[1] noted, "NETHERLANDS. Gulden, 1945-P. PCGS MS-64 Secure Holder. Though KN shows as having a combined mintage for both the 1944-P and 1945-P of 25,375,000 pieces. They also state that only a small number were placed into circulation. Lightly toned." The gulden was 10 g, 0.945 fine, until 1917. The later Wilhelmina type (KM 161.1) of 1922-40 was 0.720 fine. This subtype of 1944-45 was struck at the Philadelphia mint, the Utrecht mint being under Nazi occupation. When the homeland type was resumed in 1954, it was 6.5 g, 0.720 fine silver (KM 184).

Recorded mintage: 25,375,000.

Specification: 10 g, 0.720 fine silver, 28 mm diameter, lettered edge.

Catalog reference: KM-161.2, Sch-1056.

Source:

• Peters, T., J. Scheper and J. Mevius, Muntalmanak 2018, 35^e editie, Amsterdam: Nederlandse vereniging van munthandelaren, 2017.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio Sale 173: The January NYINC 2013 Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2012.

Link to:

• 1944-P gulden
• 1945-P 25 cents
• Netherlands East Indies 1945-S 1/4 gulden
• Coins and currency dated 1945
• On the decimal coinage of the Netherlands
• return to coinage of Netherlands