Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/8 Gulden with circle reverse
| Issuer | Batavian Republic |
|---|---|
| Year | 1802 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Silver (.916) |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | MO · ARG · ORD · FŒD · BELG · HOL ★ 1/8 G (Translation: Silver coinage of the United Provinces of the Netherlands Holland) |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Batavian Republic was a French client state established in 1795 after Revolutionary forces overran the Dutch Republic, and its coinage reflects the administrative chaos of that arrangement — monetary policy was repeatedly subordinated to French fiscal demands, including forced loans and metal requisitions that disrupted mint output throughout the period. By 1802, the Republic was already drifting toward the more autocratic Batavian Commonwealth that would follow in 1805, with Louis Napoleon's kingdom just three years beyond that.
The 1/8 gulden denomination had a fractional role in daily transactions that larger silver rarely filled. The Scholt II#495c reference places this among a documented variety grouping distinguished by reverse circle configuration.