The historic golden coin set of the Netherlands Antilles that the Royal Dutch Mint is issuing this month.
THE HAGUE–The Royal Dutch Mint is issuing a very special set of historic coins of the former Netherlands Antilles: the Golden Guilder Collection. One of the five gold coins features the USS Andrew Doria, the ship to which St. Eustatius responded with the famous First Salute in 1776, recognising the United States as an independent country.
The Royal Dutch Mint announced the issuing of the set of golden Antillean guilders on Thursday. The original minting of the five coins dates from 1976 up to and including 1980. The collection is deemed unique because of the different forms and special denominations of the coins.
The golden 50-guilder and the 100-guilder coins are round, the two types of golden 200-guilder coins are octagonal and the 300 golden guilder is square. All five coins have Queen Juliana on the front. Juliana was queen during the period of the original minting of the coins.
The Juliana 50 guilder (1979) is the smallest coin with on the other side the crowned weapons of the Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands. The Willem I 100-guilder coin was originally minted in 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary (1828-1978) of the introduction of the guilder in the former Netherlands Antilles. On the other side, the 100-guilder coin depicts the bust of King Willem I.
The set has two different 200-guilder coins: the Andrew Doria and the Peter Stuyvesant. The Andrew Doria 200-guilder coin was minted in 1976 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the First Salute that the US received via the USS Andrew Doria in Statia’s harbour in November 1776. This was the first time that a foreign state recognised the US as a country. The reverse side of the golden coin that will now be issued by the Royal Dutch Mint depicts the Andrew Doria on the reverse side.
The second gold 200-guilder shows a statue of Peter Stuyvesant, who was the director of the Dutch Caribbean islands between 1643 and 1645. In 1645, Stuyvesant became the governor of New Amsterdam, the later New York. This coin was originally minted in 1977.
The golden 300-guilder coin of the collection was initially minted in 1980, on the occasion of the end of the reigning period of Queen Juliana. On the reverse side of the coin are the crowned weapons of the then Netherlands Antilles and the Netherlands.
The total denomination of the collection is 850 guilders. Only 50 sets will be available per mid-August. In combination with the price, 2.075 euros, this makes the set a true collectors’ item. Unfortunately, it is not possible for non-residents of the Netherlands to subscribe to collections of the Royal Dutch Mint.
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/89664-royal-mint-issues-set-of-antillean-gold-coins
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