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10 Gulden - Willem I
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1818-1840 |
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| Value | 10 Gulden (10 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait bust of King Willem I facing left, rendered in high relief with fine neoclassical detail by engraver Auguste-François Michaut, whose signature appears on the truncation of the neck. The king's naturally curled hair is depicted with careful attention to texture and volume. The circular legend surrounds the effigy near the toothed border, with the abbreviated royal title reading WILLEM KONING DER NED G H V L. The overall composition is characteristic of early 19th-century Dutch numismatic portraiture. |
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| Reverse description | The crowned Dutch coat of arms, featuring a lion rampant on a shield with heraldic mantling, is centrally displayed and divides the denomination value. The privy mark of the assay master appears to the left of the shield and the mint mark to the right. A circular legend running along the toothed border reads MUNT VAN HET KONINGRYK DER NEDERLANDEN, with the date split on either side of the shield and the denomination 10 G appearing in the lower field. The design reflects the formal heraldic conventions standard to the Kingdom of the Netherlands coinage under Willem I. |
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Willem I established the Dutch gold gulden coinage shortly after the Kingdom of the Netherlands was reconstituted following the Napoleonic period, with the 10 Gulden serving as the prestige denomination of his new monetary order. The Utrecht mint held primary striking responsibility throughout the series, though pieces dated to the early 1820s show documented variation in die preparation that Delmonte cataloged separately as G#1183 and G#1184 — distinctions driven by differences in the portrait punch rather than any change in monetary policy.
Willem abdicated in 1840 in favor of his son, largely due to the political fallout from the Belgian secession of 1830, which had consumed the final decade of his reign. Production of this type ceased with his departure.