Coins, Medals & Decorations
Coins, commemorative medals, and decorative awards from the Dutch Republic, the Netherlands, the Dutch East and West India Companies, and historic European mints.
Nederlandse dukaat, 1927Wilhelmina of the Netherlands · 1927
Nederlandse dukaat, 1927Wilhelmina of the Netherlands · 1927
Power and money, issued by a republic of merchants.
trading nation lives by coin, and the Dutch struck a great deal of it — for the home provinces, for the East and West India Companies, for the wider world its ships reached. Each piece is a small official statement of who held value, and on whose authority.
Follow the metal from a VOC trade coin to a medal struck for a victory or a queen, to the ribboned decorations of the modern Netherlands. The smallest objects in the museum, carrying the state's signature into every pocket.