Netherlands ½ gulden 1929 - Queen Wilhelmina

The coin's story

This half guilder (½ gulden) in 720 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1921 to 1930 in the name of Queen Wilhelmina. From this series onwards, the silver fineness of the half guilder fell from 945 to 720 thousandths. Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948, came to the throne at the age of ten on the death of her father William III, under the regency of her mother Emma until 1898. The portrait is the work of Johannes Cornelis Wienecke, chief engraver of the Utrecht Mint. The reverse bears the crowned arms and the legend MUNT VAN HET KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN (Coin of the Kingdom of the Netherlands). The 1929 date was struck at the Utrecht Mint, under the mintmaster Copius Hoitsema.