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Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netherlands. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 February 2018

1968 GULDEN



This note is the 10 gulden note from 1968 with Frans Hals , the dutch painter, on the front and  a modernistic design on the back.there are two versions  - in the top left  of the reverse side is two circles one is a cross fire , one version has a zero in it, the other has no zero (as above)

Sunday, 27 April 2014

THE NETHERLANDS (AGAIN)




This is a 1 Gulden note from the Netherlands (Holland) dated 1938. the queen's head on the front left of the note is Queen Wilhelmina, who was the longest reigning dutch monarch (1890 - 1948) on the reverse is the national coat of arms.


More from The Netherlands here .

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

The Netherlands




The Netherlands is one constituent country that make up the Kingdom of The Netherlands. the other 3 being Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten. It is often referred to as Holland but north and south Holland are only 2 of the 12 provinces (plus 3 special municipalities in the Caribbean) the latin name for this is " pars pro toto" - part taken for the whole. The capital city is Amsterdam.

monetary unit:

1 gulden = 100 cents ( up to 2001)
1 euro = 100 cents  (2001 onward)

The note above is the 1949 1 gulden note with a portrait of Queen Juliana on the front.