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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.
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 list of the coins included are for those issued by the Royal Dutch Mint from 1970 to 2001. 10 Gulden. 1970 .720 silver 38 mm. 25th year of the end of the Second World War and liberation, 1945–1970; 1973 .720 silver 38 mm. 25th year of reign, Queen Juliana, 1948–1973
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Luxembourg euro coins dated 2002 were minted in the Netherlands in 2000 and thus bear the mint master mark of E. J. van Schauwenburg, Temporary Director of the Utrecht Mint during the year of coin production. The Coinage Act of Luxembourg stipulates that national coins cannot have a date stamp prior to the year of issue.
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.
It became a company, 100% of whose shares are owned by the Dutch State. The Queen awarded the company the prefix Koninklijk (Royal) five years later, and the company was now allowed to call itself De Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt (The Royal Dutch Mint). [6] On 22 November 2016 the Royal Dutch Mint was sold to the Belgian Groep Heylen. [7]
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was established as a chartered company in 1602 and was designed to replace a number of earlier Dutch trading companies. [1] To prevent the constant infighting between rival companies, the Dutch States-General gave the company officially recognised status and allowed it fulfill some functions usually reserved for a state.