KM# 46 2-1/2 GULDEN 1944 in high quality minted in the USA (Denver) during World War II 25.00 g., 0.720 Silver 0.5787 oz. ASW, 38 mm. Obv: Head left Rev: Crowned arms divide denomination, date below Edge Lettering: GOD * ZIJ * MET * ONS * Please have a look at our other Catawiki auction lots for more coin collections. and/or add us to your favourites to find our future auction lots easily. Bid with confidence. AG-Worldcoins, over 3000 lots sold on Catawiki. High feedback score. Please evaluate this lot with reference to the images provided. Will be sent via registered mail. I charge only 1x shipping costs when you buy multiple lots in the same auction. You are welcome to bid on my other items: https://veiling.catawiki.nl/aanbod/hamaca extra info: The island of Curacao, the largest of the six islands that comprise the Netherlands Antilles, which is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela, has an area of 173 sq. mi. (472 sq. km.) Capital: Willemstad. The chief industries are banking and tourism. Salt, phosphates and cattle are exported. Formerly a part of the Netherlands Antilles, achieved on Oct. 10, 2011 a special status, as the fourth state under the Dutch crown. Curacao was discovered by Spanish navigator Alonsode Ojeda in 1499 and was settled by Spain in 1527. The Dutch West India Company took the island from Spain in 1634 and administered it until 1787, when it was surrendered to the United Netherlands. The Dutch held it thereafter except for two periods during the Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1803 and 1807-16, when it was occupied by the British. During World War II, Curacao refined 60 percent of the oil used by the Allies; the refineries were protected by U.S. troops after Germany invaded the Netherlands in1940. During the second occupation of the Napoleonic period, the British created an emergency coinage for Curacao by cutting the Spanish dollar into 5 equal segments and countermarking each piece with a rosette indent. DUTCH ADMINISTRATION 1941-1945 MINT MARKS D - Denver P - Philadelphia (u) - Utrecht