Decimal one-gulden silver coin
Established by the law of 1816 ・ silver ・ 19th century ・ Kingdom of the Netherlands (this piece 1846, William II)
In 1816 the coinage law of the new kingdom laid down its core in one short line — one gulden is one hundred cents. The old world of one gulden = twenty stuivers ended, and the decimal world came. The models were the franc of revolutionary France and the dollar of the United States. The country that had taught the world the craft of credit learned the decimal system, and that alone, from its conqueror and from its former pupil. Old words do not die easily, however, and the name stuiver lived on as a nickname for the 5-cent coin into the 20th century. This piece is a one-gulden silver coin of 1846, cut with the portrait of William II and the arms of the kingdom.