Obverse. Photo © MA-SHOPS
  • 2½ Cents 1956-1965, KM# 5, Netherlands Antilles, Juliana
  • 2½ Cents 1956-1965, KM# 5, Netherlands Antilles, Juliana
Description

The Netherlands Antilles (1954–2010) were a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands consisting of several island territories located in the Caribbean.

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

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)

NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN
1965

Reverse

Value within orange wreath.

2 1/2
CENT

Edge
Characteristics
Material Bronze
Weight 5 g
Diameter 23.5 mm
Thickness 1.28 mm
Shape round
Alignment Coin
Mint
Royal Dutch Mint (KNM)

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