Owner Comments:
Mintage: 99,239 total of both varieties.
Weight 6.7290 g. Purity 900 fine. Diameter 22.5 mm.
Gold content: 0.1947 ounce.
Wilhelmina was formally enthroned on September 6, 1898, upon reaching her eighteenth birthday. The coin was designed by the sculptor Pier Pander using Wilhelmina's inauguration portrait at age eighteen.
The 1898 coins were actually minted in 1900 but were dated 1898 to honor Wilhelmina's inauguration.
This example's variety is "with dot," that is, there is a dot between the designer's first-name initial "P" and last name "PANDER." The inscription "P • PANDER" appears below the bust. The other variety, "without dot," is said to be scarcer than "with dot" but exact mintages are not known.* Please see my Custom Set for my PCGS MS-66 example "without dot."
*The online coin catalogue numista.com reports that a census of its users who own this date shows that 76% own the "with dot" variety and 38% own the "without dot" variety (some own both). Numista's percentages will vary with each new user added to its census but its census ratio has remained constant at about two-to-one for several years.