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1 Ducat - Willem I Trade Coinage
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1817-1840 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1817 - KM#50.1; child in swaddling clothes - 495,110 1818 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 1,561,407 1818 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,350,000 1819 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 110,670 1820 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 10,419 1821 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 15,073 1822 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 11,971 1824 B - KM#50.1; palm branch privy mark - 8,000 1825 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 119,276 1825 B - KM#50.1; palm branch mark - 48,003 1827 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 138,110 1827 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 350,000 1827 B - KM#50.1; palm branch privy mark - 27,032 1828 - KM#50.1; Overstrike 1828/27U - 1828 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark; overdate variety exists - 631,800 1828 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,300,000 1828 B - KM#50.1; palm branch privy mark - 454,114 1829 - KM#50.1; Overstrike 1829/28U - 1829 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark; overdate variety exists - 1,153,100 1829 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 150,000 1829 B - KM#50.1; palm branch privy mark - 247,000 1830 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 2,000,000 1830 B - KM#50.1; palm branch privy mark - 11,186 1831 - KM#50.1; fleur de lis privy mark; overdate variety exists - 410,915 1831 - KM#50.1; Overstrike 1831/30 - 1831 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,000,000 1832 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,000,000 1833 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 247,303 1833 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 350,000 1834 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 150,000 1835 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 650,000 1836 - KM#50.1; Overstrike 1836/35 - 1836 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark; overdate variety exists - 235,801 1836 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 300,000 1837 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,400,000 1838 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,200,000 1839 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 118,604 1839 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - 1,350,000 1840 - KM#50.1; fleur de lis privy mark - 1840 - KM#50.1; torch privy mark - 103,321 1840 - KM#50.2; torch privy mark - |
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The Dutch trade ducat is one of numismatics' great continuity stories — the Netherlands has struck gold ducats to essentially the same standard since 1586, making this Willem I issue part of an unbroken commercial tradition spanning centuries. Dutch merchants and the VOC had so thoroughly embedded the ducat's weight and fineness into Asian and Baltic trade networks that demand for the coin persisted long after the Republic that created it had collapsed. Willem I, who became king of the newly unified Netherlands in 1815, simply continued production because stopping would have disrupted commerce his treasury could not afford to lose.
The Netherlands officially restruck trade ducats well into the twentieth century, occasionally with earlier dates.