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  • 2½ Gulden 1944, KM# 46, Curacao, Wilhelmina
  • 2½ Gulden 1944, KM# 46, Curacao, Wilhelmina
Description

Curaçao is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about 65 km (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan coast. It is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Designer: Johannes Cornelis Wienecke

Obverse

Depicts a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina, hair raised, facing left surrounded by the inscription in Dutch "Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands".

WILHELMINA KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN

Reverse

Depict the coat of arms of the Netherlands dividing the value. The inscription in Dutch "Mint of Curacao" above, the issue date below. Privy mark at 8 o'clock and mint mark at 4 o'clock.

The coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was originally adopted in 1815 and later modified in 1907. The arms are a composite of the arms of the former Dutch Republic and the arms of the House of Nassau, it features a checkered shield with a lion grasping a sword in one hand and a bundle of seven arrows in the other and is the heraldic symbol of the monarch and the country. The lion comes from the arms of the House of Nassau. The sword and sheaf of arrows in the lion’s paws come from the coat of arms of the States General of the Republic of the United Provinces. The seven arrows stand for the seven provinces of the Union of Utrecht. The shield is crowned with the Dutch Royal Crown.

Privy mark: The coinage for the overseas territories of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was marked with a palm tree during the German occupation of World War II (1941 - 1945). These territories were the Netherlands East Indies, Suriname and the former Netherlands Antilles (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St. Martin, St. Eustatius and Saba).

Mint mark: D (Denver, USA)

• MUNT VAN CURAÇAO •
2½ G
• 1944・D

Edge

God zij met ons (English: God be with us) is a proverb phrase written on Dutch coins. This shortened text expands into its Latin origin "Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos" (If God is with us, who shall be against us?). This biblical motto was used in the Eighty years war and taken over by the Dutch Republic for use on its coins.

GOD ☆ ZIJ ☆ MET ☆ ONS ☆

2½ Gulden

KM# 46 Schön# 38
Characteristics
Material Silver
Fineness 0.720
Weight 25 g
Diameter 38 mm
Thickness 2.7 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Denver Mint (D)

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