1944 Netherlands 10 Cents - Can I get some information and maybe a grade please??

DiggerJim

Found this coin while going through my Dad's WWII coins and currency. This is one of the first ones I pulled out. Can I get some help please?

Thanks in advance

DiggerJim

bidask

Here is something about the person on the coin .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina_of_the_Netherlands

Insider2

XF/AU - Not valuable. Look up the country and date on the Internet. I'd keep it as a memory of your dad.

BillDugan1959

Maybe I'm drunk, but Krause says the 1944 D Mint marked coin is valuable.

@Insider2 said:
XF/AU - Not valuable. Look up the country and date on the Internet. I'd keep it as a memory of your dad.

DiggerJim

Well I don’t drink Lol. What does valuable mean??

BillDugan1959

Surprisingly valuable. I will try to take a photo of the page.

DiggerJim

Holy Moly!!
What do think the grade is?

DiggerJim

Well they didn’t melt this one!!

BillDugan1959

Perhaps it is a "P" mintmark. Perhaps it is a "D". Not easy to find a photo of a "D" mintmarked coin, although if it is a "P" it is oddly stylized.

I wouldn't let the coin get too far away until we know more.

Insider2

Thanks, for the correction! LOL. I'm truly sorry for not looking this up for the OP. GI's brought all sorts of common coins back to the states. I'll bet your Dad had no idea this coin was a real "keeper" at the time.

DiggerJim

Yes he probably didn’t but he’s long passed now.

BillDugan1959

Well, don't spend the funds quite yet, it's iffy...

http://coinauctionshelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4114

DiggerJim

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What about this??

BillDugan1959

Don't know. Don't know what the "D" is supposed to look like and don't know the level of expertise of that seller.

I do heartily apologize for several egregious rips of what may be copyrighted stuff:

It would appear that somebody has slabbed one...

DiggerJim

Here’s what NGC has for a “P”

Crappy picture on their site

DiggerJim

Well the slabbed one looks more like a D

1960NYGiants

The OP's coin is the P mint in VF/EF condition.

DiggerJim

Thanks for all the help guys. A little excitement for a Sunday night never hurt.

DiggerJim

DiggerJim

@DiggerJim said:

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What about this??

And NGC has the pictures all wrong for these. The picture for the “D” is clearly a “P”

DiggerJim

amwldcoin

It is a P!

DiggerJim

Yes I know but look at the description above her head it says “1944-D”.
That’s what started all this. The picture doesn’t match the description!!

DiggerJim

On the NGC screenshot

MrBreeze

The D will look long and slender.

Stork

Don't blame NGC, it's 'Krause-powered'. And Krause is accident prone, and for these will often use a 'representative photo'. All that said, it does unfortunately look like a stylized P rather than a D.

JBK

I assume that nearly the entire D mintage was melted for a reason - perhaps they never left the Denver Mint (or at least the US)?

bronco2078

I have a big heap of these maybe 100 . Ok its a very small heap

They seem dangerously small , a tiny hole in your pocket and you would be skint.

Precisely the size of a gold dollar

WillieBoyd2

I have had one of these little coins since the 1960's when I visited many California coin shows and looked through coin dealer foreign coin boxes.

Netherlands 10 cents 1944-P (Philadelphia)
Silver, 15 mm, 1.4 gm

Does anyone know the reason that the Denver issue of 25,400,000 were not issued or how the surviving specimens left the mint?

It seems like an interesting numismatic story.

MasonG

Seeing as how the 1945 P issue is less than common (based on the noted value vs. mintage, it looks like a bunch of them were melted, too), I'd think a decision was made after the Denver issues were struck that there was no need for them.

bronco2078

why did they make these at all? 1944 maybe but 42 and 43 doesn't make sense.

Most of mine are east indies or curacao . If those places were free during the war generally I understand why the us minted coins for them , with the parent country under occupation.