1944 CURACAO Netherlands Kingdom Queen WILHELMINA Silver 2.5 Gulden Coin i83067

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Curacao under Kingdom of Netherlands
Wilhelmina – Queen November 1890 – 4 September 1948
1944
Silver 2 1/2 Gulden 38mm (24.91 grams) 0.720 Silver (0.5787 oz. ASW) 
Reference: KM# 46
WILHELMINA KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN, Head of Queen Wilhelmina left.
◦◦  MUNT VAN CURACAO 2 12 G, Crowned coat-of-arms.

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Wilhelmina der NederlandenI71849.jpgWilhelmina  (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen   of the Kingdom of the  Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She reigned for nearly 58  years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I   and World War II ,  the economic crisis of  1933 , and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial power .  Outside the Netherlands she is primarily remembered for her role in World War  II, in which she proved to be a great inspiration to the Dutch resistance

Wilhelmina was well aware what was expected of her by the Dutch people and their elected representatives. At the same time, she was a strong-willed and forceful personality who spoke and acted her mind. These qualities showed up early in her reign when, at the age of 20, Queen Wilhelmina ordered a Dutch warship, HNLMS Gelderland, to South Africa to evacuate Paul Kruger, the embattled President of the Transvaal.

Wilhelmina had a stern dislike of the United Kingdom partly as a result of the annexation of the republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State in the Boer War. The Boers were descendants of early Dutch colonists, to whom Wilhelmina and the people of the Netherlands felt very closely linked. In conversation with her former governess Elisabeth Saxton Winter, she once teasingly referred to the Boer soldiers as “excellent shots”. She was not amused to hear that a Dutch medical relief team was planning to accommodate the needs of both Boer and British wounded soldiers. Nevertheless, in 1940, King George VI sent the warship HMS Hereward, to rescue Wilhelmina, her family and her Government and bring them to safety to the United Kingdom, which offered the Netherlands facilities including broadcasting time on the BBC.

Queen Wilhelmina also had a keen understanding of business matters and her investments made her the world’s richest woman, as well as the world’s first female billionaire (in United States dollars).

Before the First World War started, the young Wilhelmina visited the powerful German Emperor Wilhelm II. The Emperor thought he could impress the queen of a relatively small country by telling her, “My guards are seven feet tall and yours are only shoulder-high to them.” Wilhelmina smiled politely and replied, “Quite true, Your Majesty, your guards are seven feet tall. But when we open our dikes, the water is ten feet deep!”


Location of  Curaçao  (circled in red)in the Caribbean  (light yellow)Curaçao is an island country   in the southern Caribbean Sea ,  approximately 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of the Venezuelan   coast, that is a constituent country   (Dutch: land) of the Kingdom of the  Netherlands . Formally called the  Country  of Curaçao, (Dutch: Land Curaçao; Papiamento : Pais Kòrsou), it includes the main  island and the uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao   (“Little Curaçao”). It has a population   of over 150,000 on an area of 444 km2 (171 sq mi) and its capital is Willemstad .

Before the dissolution of the  Netherlands Antilles on 10 October 2010, Curaçao was  administered as the “Island Territory of Curaçao” (Dutch: Eilandgebied  Curaçao, Papiamentu: Teritorio Insular di Kòrsou), one of five island territories   of the former Netherlands Antilles.


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YEAR

1944

COUNTRY/REGION OF MANUFACTURE

Netherlands

CERTIFICATION

Uncertified

COMPOSITION

Silver

DENOMINATION

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MPN

Netherlands 1944 S0Z1WVKB0TWHVO2J

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