fwo_740790 - NETHERLANDS INDIES 1/4 Gulden Guillaume I 1840 Utrecht
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Type : 1/4 Gulden Guillaume I
Date: 1840
Mint name / Town : Utrecht
Quantity minted : 973000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 568 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Edge : striée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : WILLEM KONING - DER NED. G. H. V. L..
Obverse description : Tête nue à gauche.
Obverse translation : (Guillaume, roi des Néerlandais, Grand-duc de Luxembourg).
Reverse
Reverse legend : NEDERLANDSCHE INDIE // 1840.
Reverse description : KWART / GULDEN ; dans une couronne fermée.
Historical background
NETHERLANDS INDIES
In 1602, the Vereenigde Ooste Indishe Compagnie (United East India Company) abbreviated as VOC was founded, which obtained the monopoly of trade in the Indian Ocean. It establishes counters, raises troops and maintains a fleet. Badly managed, the VOC is also worn down by competition and wars with the British. It loses Ceylon and is reinforced in the area of present-day Indonesia. The VOC went bankrupt in 1798 and its assets were taken over by the Batavian Republic and then by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Occupied between 1943 and 1945 by Japanese troops, the Dutch failed to restore their sovereignty over the archipelago and had to concede independence in 1949.
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