Gary's Golden Wilhelmina Guldens
1927


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Set Details
Origin/Country: NETHERLANDS 1817 TO DATE
Design Description:
Item Description: 10G 1927 Netherland
Grade: NGC MS 65
Owner: coinsbygary
 
Winning Set: Gary's Golden Wilhelmina Guldens
Date Added: 1/8/2012
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

World War II saw the Netherlands falling to a German invasion. Queen Wilhelmina and her daughter Juliana narrowly escaped capture by leaving the Netherlands on a British warship that the Germans nearly sank as it crossed the English Channel. A naval officer commenting on the incident said, "I have never seen a woman so completely calm in my life.” From Great Britain, Wilhelmina inspired her people and members of the Dutch underground with late evening radio broadcasts calling Adolf Hitler “the arch-enemy of mankind." Over the course of the war, Queen Wilhelmina became popular and respected among the leaders of the world. Winston Churchill described her as, “The only real man” among the governments-in-exile in London. Queen Wilhelmina also became the second women inducted into knighthood in the “Order of the Garter." While living in England, Queen Wilhelmina survived an assassination attempt that killed several of her guards. After the war in 1945, Queen Wilhelmina returned to the Netherlands and a rapturous welcome home by her people.

This 1927 NGC MS-65 10 Gulden coin has a mintage of 1,000,000 and the NGC population report for this coin is 10 with none higher.

Like the 1913 10 gulden coin, upgrades to this set’s current 1927 coin came in incremental steps. On August 19, 2009, I bought this set's original coin graded by NGC at MS-63 on a raw submission. Following this was a NGC MS-64 coin purchased January 19, 2011, and finally this coin, one of four NGC MS-65 1927 top-pops purchased on January 8, 2012.

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