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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Guilder Pincher, post: 8195791, member: 87595&quot;]My most recent purchases:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435512[/ATTACH]</p><p>Netherlands East Indies, 1/20 Gulden (5 cents) 1855. A cute little coin at 12.5 millimeters in diameter.&nbsp; I&#039;d been looking for a nice one for some time. Lots of original lustre on this one and it was clearly struck from rather scratchy dies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435514[/ATTACH] </p><p>Dutch Republic, region of West-Friesland, 1 Gulden 1794. While part of the province of Holland, the prosperous trading towns of the region of West-Friesland managed to establish a mint of their own in the early years of the Dutch Republic and resisted all attempts to centralize coin production for the province in Dordrecht. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435522[/ATTACH]</p><p>Dutch Republic, province of Utrecht, 1 GUlden 1791. Some lovely grody toning going on on the reverse. Obverse has been cleaned a bit more, but luckily it&#039;s restricted to the fields. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435523[/ATTACH] </p><p>Kingdom of the Netherlands, half cent 1906. Another tiny coin at 14 millimeters in diameter. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435524[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2.5 Gulden 1960. After the upheavals of World War 2, it took quite a few years before silver coins could be issued again. The silver Gulden reappeared in 1954, the 2.5 Gulden coin or <i>rijksdaalder</i> didn&#039;t reappear until 1959. While much reduced in size and weight from their prewar predecessors, their silver content was the same at .720. They were produced for only a couple of years (the rijksdaalder up to 1966, the 1 gulden up to 1967) before the worldwide end of silver currency in the 1960s led to a switch to pure nickel coins, struck to the same design. However, freed from its intrinsic value, the rijksdaalder was reduced in size from a cumbersome 33 millimeters and 15 grams to a more manageable 29 millimeters and 10 grams.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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