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1/2 Cents - Wilhelmina Pattern
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1902 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse script | Arabic/Javanese |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date) |
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| Additional information |
Pattern coinage from the Royal Dutch Mint rarely surfaces in trade, and this gold half-cent piece belongs to a small family of 1902 proefslag issues struck to evaluate potential denominations during a broader reassessment of Dutch coinage under the young Wilhelmina. The half-cent denomination itself had already been discontinued for circulation in 1877, making this pattern a study in a denomination the Dutch had effectively abandoned — struck in a metal wholly disproportionate to its face value.
Delmonte's cataloguing of this piece confirms its gold composition as deliberate rather than experimental, suggesting presentation or archival intent rather than any serious proposal for circulation.