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5 Florins - Beatrix Dande
| Issuer | Central Bank of Aruba |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Weight | 11.9 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a lively scene commemorating the traditional Aruban New Year custom of Dande, showing a group of musicians playing and dancing in the upper field, accompanied by musical notes. In the lower portion, a large hand is shown holding an upturned hat to receive money offerings, flanked on either side by exploding firecrackers rendered in decorative detail. The denomination 5 FLORIN appears prominently in the central field, with the legends DANDE "BON AÑA" above and ARUBA 2009 along the lower exergue. |
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Aruba's florin coinage has been issued since the island achieved separate status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1986, breaking from the Netherlands Antillean guilder. The Central Bank of Aruba has consistently used commemorative and circulation issues to reinforce that distinct identity, though the "Dande" series specifically honors a traditional New Year's folk song tradition in which singers move door to door through Aruban neighborhoods — a custom with roots traceable to West African and indigenous Arawak musical practices that survived Dutch colonial administration largely intact.