W. C a r e w H a z l i t t Coinage of the European Continent

414 The Coins of Europe
to France. But the tenure of authority by Louis Napoleon,
brief as it was, was not destitute of numismatic results. We
annex a list of the new coinage which was thus introduced
from the Amsterdam mint :
i Florin . . .
1807
50 Stuiver . . 1807
50 Stuiver . . 1808
The same . 1 809
2\ Gulden . . .
1809
I Rix Daalder . . 1809
The same (with a different
rev. and no value)
.
1809
Gulden . .
1809
i
10 Stuiver . . .
1809
5 Gulden (gold)
. .
1809
10 Gulden (gold)
. . 1809
20 Gulden (gold)
. .
1809
i Duit (for Java)
. .. 1808
.-. 2 types
The same . . . 1809
The same . . . 1810
.-. 2 types
The legend on all the money struck for home use was
never much varied. The florin of 1
807 reads on obverse
Nap.Lodew I.Kon. Van //#//., and on reverse Koninrik Holland
i F. 1807. The former side has a portrait common to the
whole series, and the latter a shield quartering the lion and
the eagle. The colonial pieces have -simply Java and the
date on obverse, and L.N. on reverse in separate letters or in
a monogram. The first issue of i 808 has no initials, but the
ordinary colonial mark and a piece clipped
out, and the star
of six points which occurs on all these pieces stamped in.
The m.m. on the other money is a bee. Subsequently to
the union with the French Empire, Napoleon himself struck
money
for Holland at Utrecht.
Kingdom of the Netherlands
(1814-93)
As in other parts of the colossal French Empire under
Napoleon the I., hereditary Stadtholder, William VI., reentered
on his office in 1814, and assumed the title of King
of the Netherlands. The autonomous coinage was suspended
by political events till 1 8 1
6, and was then permanently
established. The money struck in this and the succeeding
reigns is tolerably abundant.