The Netherlands Antilles, part of the Netherlands realm, comprise two groups of islands in the West Indies: Bonaire and Curacao near the Venezuelan coast; St. Eustatius, Saba, and the southern part of St. Martin (St. Maartin) southeast of Puerto Rico.

Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. ENJOY!!

Languages: Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English, Dutch
Religions: Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist, Methodist
Status: Netherlands Terrirory

Tonight's selection is a 1994 issue of 5 Gulden printed by Johann Enschede en Zonen (JEZ) (Netherlands) The bookvalue of this note is $40 in UNC condition. The exchange rate is: Friday, February 20, 2009
5 NL Antillian Guilder = 2.85714 US Dollar

(Front) Troupial bird at center. (Back) Shield-like Bank logo and as Watermark