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10 Guilders - Beatrix Accession
| Issuer | Bank of the Netherlands Antilles |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Weight | 6.72 g |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Beatrix, depicted with loosely curled hair and wearing a simple neckline, rendered in high relief against a polished field. The portrait is unadorned and naturalistic in style, characteristic of the modern Dutch royal coinage tradition. The circular legend BEATRIX KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN surrounds the effigy, separated from the beaded border by a narrow raised rim. A small dot appears at the base of the design, serving as a decorative stop in the legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | BEATRIX KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN |
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Beatrix formally acceded to the Dutch throne on April 30, 1980, following the abdication of her mother Juliana. The Netherlands Antilles, then still an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, issued this commemorative through the Bank of the Netherlands Antilles — one of the last such gold issues before the slow dissolution of the Antillean monetary union began in earnest through the 1980s.
The .900 fineness matches the traditional Dutch gold standard rather than the higher purity adopted by many contemporaneous commemoratives.