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1/2 Gulden - Willem III
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1850-1868 |
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| Weight | 5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned Dutch royal coat of arms, featuring a rampant lion on a horizontally lined shield, occupies the central field. The denomination "1/2" appears to the left of the shield and the abbreviation "G" (for Gulden) to the right. The date and circular legend "MUNT VAN HET KONINGRYK DER NEDERLANDEN" run along the periphery within a dentilated border, with the Utrecht mint mark appearing at the base of the design. |
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Willem III's half gulden was struck under the Coinage Act of 1847, which overhauled Dutch monetary law and standardized the guilder system ahead of broader European currency negotiations. The .945 fineness was a deliberate holdover from earlier Dutch silver traditions rather than an alignment with the emerging Latin Monetary Union standard of .835, which the Netherlands would not formally adopt until 1879.
These pieces circulated hard through the colonial trade networks linking Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, and worn examples are the rule rather than the exception.