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10 Cents - Wilhelmina

Issuer Suriname
Year 1941-1943
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Weight 1.4 g
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Reverse description The denomination 10 CENTS appears in two lines at the centre of the field, enclosed within a symmetrical wreath of oak branches tied at the base with a ribbon bow. The date is inscribed below the denomination, within the lower arc of the wreath. A palm-tree mintmark and the Philadelphia Mint letter P appear below the date at the base of the wreath. The entire design is contained within a beaded border.
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Mintage 1941 P - - 500,000
1942 P - (fr) marque palme - 1,500,000
1943 P - - 4,000,000
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When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, the Dutch colonial monetary system faced immediate disruption. Suriname's coinage had previously been struck in Utrecht, but wartime conditions forced production to Philadelphia, where the U.S. Mint struck these pieces under emergency arrangements that also covered the Netherlands Antilles — hence the shared KM#37 reference with Curaçao. The .640 silver alloy was a pre-existing Dutch colonial standard, not a wartime debasement.

Suriname at the time was a significant bauxite supplier to the Allied war effort, making stable local coinage a practical priority.