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Pages in category "Coins of the Netherlands" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
All coins share the 12 stars of the EU and the year of imprint in their design. This coin comes from the second series, with king Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. As is the case in Finland, most Dutch shops have elected not to issue one and two cent coins starting on 1 September 2004, though the coins remain legal tender. Sums are rounded ...
The value of a Dutch silver coin corresponds with the theme of the coin. If the coin has a royal theme, then the face value is 10 euro. Any other subject and the coin will be of face value 5 euro. The same principle with the gold coins, which have face values of 10 euro and 20 euro. Sometimes also 50 euro gold coins are issued.
The coins of the first year of mintage have a wider diameter of 30.5mm. [1] The obverse [2] featured a portrait of King William I of the Netherlands facing right, with the inscription WILLEM KONING on his left and DER NED.(erlanden) G.(root) H.(ertog) V.(an) L.(uxemburg) on the right (meaning 'William King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of ...
The Dutch monetary system overseas of a rijksdaalder – or rixdollar – of 48 stuiver was continued in the Cape Province by the British in the early nineteenth century. In Ceylon, the VOC issued coins during the 18th century in denominations of 1 ⁄ 8 and 1 duit, 1 ⁄ 4, 1, 2 and 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 stuiver and 1 rijksdaalder.
In 1818 the Netherlands decimalised its guilder into 100 cents. Two stuivers equalled a dubbeltje - the ten-cent coin. [2] [3] After the decimalisation of Dutch currency, the name "stuiver" was preserved as a nickname for the five-cent coin until the introduction of the euro in 2002. [4] The word can still refer to the 5 euro cent coin, which ...
Thus, in order to prevent wasting them, it was decided to postpone the introduction of the coin for several years. The new coin had to fit in the current series. The ministry of finance reported it was to become "gold-coloured" and "smaller than the guilder coin and thicker than the rijksdaalder (2½ guilder coin)". It was introduced on 1 May 1988.
After the succession of William II to the Dutch throne his portrait replaced that of William I on the obverse of the Netherlands' coins. The reverses remained the same. After some trial strikes dated 1840, production began in 1842 and continued without interruption until 1849; the year in which William II died.