Netherlands Antilles Juliana 1 Cent

History

1 Cent 1952-1970, KM# 1, Netherlands Antilles, Juliana

Obverse. Photo © MA-SHOPS

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.

Juliana (1909–1920) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1980. She reigned for nearly 32 years. Her reign saw the decolonization of both Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) and Suriname from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Obverse	Animal (fish, bird, mammal etc.) Lion Coat of arms Netherlands Military Sword Depicts the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands surrounded by the country name, date below between privy and mint marks. 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. 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's marks (the star indicates that the piece was struck at the beginning of the term of office of a successor): • fish: Dr. J.W.A. van Hengel (1945-1969) • fish + star: Dr. Ir. M. van der Brandhof (1969) • cock: Marius van den Brandhof (1969-1979) NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN 1967
Reverse	Tree, flower, plant etc. Orange Value within orange wreath. 1 CENT
Edge	Reeded (milled)