10 Gulden - Willem I

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.