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  • 1 Gulden 1980-1985, KM# 24, Netherlands Antilles, Beatrix
  • 1 Gulden 1980-1985, KM# 24, Netherlands Antilles, Beatrix
Description

The Netherlands Antilles was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The country consisted of several island territories located in the Caribbean Sea. The country came into being in 1954 as the autonomous successor of the Dutch colony of Curaçao and Dependencies, and was dissolved in 2010. All the island territories that belonged to the Netherlands Antilles remain part of the kingdom today, although the legal status of each differs. As a group they are still commonly called the Dutch Caribbean, regardless of their legal status.

Obverse

Depict a portrait of Queen Beatrix left surrounded by the inscription 'Beatrix Queen of the Netherlands'.

Beatrix (born 31 January 1938) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013, after a reign of exactly 33 years. In 1966, Beatrix married Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat, with whom she had three children. Beatrix's reign saw the country's Caribbean possessions reshaped with Aruba's secession and becoming its own constituent country within the Kingdom in 1986 as well as the subsequent Antillean Dissolution in 2010, which created the new special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, and the two new constituent countries of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. On Koninginnedag (Queen's Day), 30 April 2013, Beatrix abdicated in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, and resumed the title of princess.

BEATRIX KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN •

Reverse

Coat of arms of the Netherland Antilles (1964-1986), date below.

The coat of arms of the Netherlands Antilles consisted of a shield, a crown and the motto. The shield itself showed six blue stars on a golden background, within a red border. These six stars stood for the six islands of the Netherlands Antilles and also were represented in the flag. The crown atop the shield was that of the Dutch sovereign. Under the shield was a ribbon with the motto: Libertate Unanimus ("United in Freedom").

Mint mark: Caduceus (Mercury's wand, a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings), the logo of the Royal Dutch Mint (Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Mint master marks (the star indicates that the piece was struck at the beginning of the term of office of a successor): hammer with anvil – Jan de Jong (1980-1987)

NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
1 G
LIBERTATE UNANIMUS
1982

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 ☆

1 Gulden

KM# 24 Schön# 65
Characteristics
Material Nickel
Weight 9 g
Diameter 28 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Royal Dutch Mint (KNM)

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