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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Euro, post: 1086859, member: 28879&quot;]<font face="Tahoma">The Netherlands Antilles have ceased to exist and they have a coin to tell one so.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">The Netherlands Antilles accumulated a large national deficit and looked towards a bleak future. But a solution was found.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Tahoma">It quit! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">They started negotiations with Holland (the latter agreed to take over their entire national deficit in return for more control of justice and finance and allowed for the dismantling of The Netherlands Antilles witin the Kingdom of The Netherlands) and had a national referendum on the issue.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">The result: Curacao and St. Martin voted for independence, again as part of The Kingdom of The Netherlands (but will have less self government than Aruba for the first 5 years), whereas the smaller Islands voted for ending independence all tohether and returning to The Netherlands.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">On 10 10 2010 in an entirely peaceful way that has gone unnoticed by most of the planet The Netherlands Antilles simply ceased to exist. Instead there now are 2 countries, St. Martin and Curacao. Saba, St. Eustatius and Bonaire are now part of Holland.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">The Netherlands Antilles Guilder will be replaced/renamed somewhere in 2012, as far as I know.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">What I find interesting is that The Netherlands Antilles have issued an official commemorative 10 Guilder silver piece for this (guess it was ordered from the Dutch Mint mint by the ones turning the lights off <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) with the name of the non existing country on it, The Netherlands Antilles, and the (Dutch) text &quot;10 10 10. Goodbye to The Netherlands Antilles&quot;.......................<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Tahoma">Strange. Normally one sees coins of new entities, new countries, the Phoenix arising from the ashes commemorating a fresh start e.g. the moment they got independent, the year the revolution started etc. etc. But on this coin the old entity, the Phoenix burning up, is kinda celebrating it managed to get rid of itself.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Never seen such a commemorative. Does anyone know of other such coins where a country, simply out of its own volition, abolishes itself and issues a commemorative for the &quot;happy&quot; occasion?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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