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3½ Gulden - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Indonesia › Netherlands East Indies (1601-1949) |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Queen Wilhelmina with elaborately styled hair swept upward and gathered at the nape. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail in the hair and garment. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circular legend reading WILHELMINA KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN around the periphery. A small mint mark star appears at the base of the bust near the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This piece was struck in the United States — at the Philadelphia mint — after the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies made domestic production impossible. The Netherlands government-in-exile arranged emergency coinage through American facilities, a stopgap measure that resulted in several denominations being minted stateside for a colonial territory thousands of miles away and entirely under enemy control.
The 3½ gulden denomination itself was peculiar to the East Indies monetary system and saw limited use even before the war; by 1943 it was being struck for a economy that had functionally ceased to exist under Dutch authority.