Bidspirit auction | Vintage 1826 Netherlands 10c .569

Vintage 1826 Netherlands 10c .569 Silver XF - This piece is a 10 cents silver coin issued in 1826 during the reign of King William I (Willem I) of the Netherlands. Minted in .569 fine silver, the obverse features the crowned royal monogram ”W” dividing the split date ”18” and ”26”. The reverse displays the crowned coat of arms of the Netherlands flanked by the denomination ”10 C.”. Following the fall of Napoleon and the creation of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, William I modernized and decimalized the monetary system, establishing the Dutch Guilder (Gulden) divided into 100 cents. As one of the early decimal fractional silver coins, this 10-cent piece represents a crucial phase in 19th-century Dutch economic stabilization and monetary integration. Winner shall receive the exact coin shown here. (MR/B)