Catalog
1 Caribbean Guilder - Willem-Alexander
| Issuer | Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The bronze-coloured bimetallic centre bears a right-facing bare-headed effigy of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, rendered in fine relief with detailed hair and facial features. The king's portrait occupies the central disc, framed by the nickel-plated steel outer ring. The legend is divided across the upper and lower portions of the ring, reading 'WILLEM-ALEXANDER' above and 'KONING DER NEDERLANDEN' below, both in incuse-style sans-serif capital letters. |
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The Caribbean guilder launched on 1 January 2025, replacing the Netherlands Antilles guilder on the islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten following a currency reform that had been in planning since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles as a political entity in 2010. The fifteen-year gap between political dissolution and actual currency replacement reflects the administrative complexity of coordinating a shared monetary authority — the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten — across two autonomous countries with no formal political union.
Willem-Alexander's effigy appearing on this inaugural series marks the first Caribbean guilder coinage under any monarch.