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2 1/2 Gulden - Willem III
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1849-1874 |
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| Value | 21/2 Gulden (2.5 NLG) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | WILLEM III KONING DER NED. G.H.V.L. J.P. SCHOUBERG (Translation: Willem III King of the Netherlands Grand Duke of Luxembourg) |
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Willem III's 2½ Gulden series launched in 1849, the same year he ascended the throne following his father Willem II's sudden death from erysipelas. The Dutch were in the middle of a significant constitutional overhaul — Thorbecke's liberal reforms had just reshaped the monarchy into a genuinely parliamentary system, and these coins entered circulation in a country that had fundamentally changed its political structure within the preceding twelve months.
The .945 fineness was unusually high for a European circulation silver of this size and period, a holdover from Dutch monetary conservatism that would persist until the Latin Monetary Union pressures of the 1870s finally forced reconsideration of the standard.