10 Gulden - Beatrix Clovis I Tremissis Fiorino d'oro

The Fiorino d'oro — the Florentine florin first struck in 1252 — was among the first gold coins of medieval Europe to achieve true international reserve currency status, circulating from England to the Levant for over two centuries without significant debasement. Its inclusion here alongside the Frankish Tremissis and the name of Clovis I places this issue within a series tracing the monetary heritage of Western Europe across roughly 1,500 years. The Clovis-era Tremissis was a degraded imitation of late Roman gold coinage, struck by Frankish moneyers still working in the Roman tradition.

The Netherlands Antilles issued several of these large-format silver pieces around the turn of the millennium, each pairing a historical monetary theme with the Beatrix portrait series.