NETHERLANDS silver 10 cent 1897
$20.00
NETHERLANDS, 10 cent, 1897, silver, 0.0288 ozT, KM116, cleaned VF
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Description
Wilhelmina became queen at the age of ten. She kept her country out of World War I and supported the Resistance from her government in exile in London during World War II. She abdicated in favor of her daughter in 1948.
The coinage of the Netherlands is varied and interesting, but collector interest has been muted, possibly since the 19th century. Modern decimal currency of cents and guldens began in 1818.
The Netherlands emerged in the 16th century when the the people fought against and eventually broke away from Spain. The country embarked on a career of colonial exploitation around the world, made a lot of money, lost most of it to the British during the Napoleonic wars. A constitutional monarchy was established after the fall of Napoleon.
The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.
