Netherlands 2½ gulden 1960 - Juliana

The coin's story

This 2½ guilder coin in 720 thousandths silver belongs to the series struck from 1959 to 1966 in the name of Queen Juliana. Juliana became queen on 4 September 1948, on the abdication of her mother Wilhelmina, was inaugurated on 6 September and reigned until her own abdication on 30 April 1980, in favour of her daughter Beatrix. The portrait is the work of the sculptor Ludwig Oswald Wenckebach, who signs W. The reverse bears the crowned arms of the kingdom and the word NEDERLAND (Netherlands). The 1960 date was struck in 12,800,000 pieces at the Utrecht Mint, under the mintmaster J.W.A. van Hengel. The coin was demonetised on 1 January 1973.