10 Gulden - Beatrix Maria Theresia Double Sovereign

The Netherlands Antilles maintained its own currency and central bank throughout the late twentieth century despite the islands' close constitutional ties to the Netherlands, a arrangement that produced a parallel series of Dutch royal portrait coinage entirely separate from the mainland issues. This 2001 piece was struck during Beatrix's reign but carries the "Maria Theresia" designation as part of a double sovereign series honoring Dutch queens — a format the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen used sporadically for collector-market releases rather than circulation.

KM#68 was produced in limited quantities for the numismatic trade. The Antillean guilder itself was dissolved when Curaçao and Sint Maarten adopted successor currencies in 2010, following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles as a political entity.