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3 Gulden - Willem I Pattern
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1818 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Willem I of the Netherlands facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curled hair and side whiskers. The truncation of the bust is cut diagonally, with the engraver's mark or signature device visible at the base. The circumferential legend reads WILLEM KONING DER NED. G. H. V. L., separated by a beaded inner border running along the coin's rim. |
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| Mintage | 1818 |
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The 1818 copper pattern for a 3 Gulden piece dates to the early years of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, when Willem I was actively pressing for a rationalized silver coinage system to replace the chaotic mixture of provincial currencies that had survived the French occupation. A 3 Gulden denomination was never adopted — the series settled on 1 and 2½ Gulden as the workhorses of the silver system — making this trial strike a dead-end proposal rather than a precursor to anything issued.
Copper patterns of this type were struck for internal review, not circulation. Scholt I#253 is the reference point for this piece within the Dutch pattern literature.