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1/2 Gulden - Willem I
| Issuer | Netherlands East Indies (1601-1949) |
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| Year | 1826-1834 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Willem I facing right, with curly hair rendered in fine detail. The portrait is executed in high relief in a classical neoclassical style. The encircling legend reads WILLEM KONING DER NED. G.H.V.L., separated at the base of the bust. The field is smooth and deeply struck, with a beaded border surrounding the entire design. |
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| Reverse description | Central denomination inscription HALVE GULDEN displayed in two lines within an ornate wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The legend NEDERLANDSCH INDIE arcs around the upper periphery, and the date 1834 appears in the exergue below the wreath. The design is enclosed by a beaded border, and the overall composition is boldly struck in high relief. |
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These pieces exist because Willem I was actively pushing for a unified colonial currency system in the late 1820s, and pattern coinage was ordered to test potential designs before any circulating issue was committed to production. Neither KM#Pn1 nor KM#Pn2 ever advanced beyond pattern status — the half gulden denomination in gold was ultimately abandoned for the Indies, leaving these as dead-end proposals from a reform that only partially succeeded.
Delmonte's listing under G#1195 confirms the gold composition as intentional to the pattern specification, not a mule or error. Surviving examples are exceptionally few.