Netherlands Antillean guilder
currency of Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Netherlands Antillean guilder (Dutch: gulden; Papiamento: florin) was the currency of the Netherlands Antilles, and later of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. It was subdivided into 100 cents (Dutch plural: centen). The guilder was replaced on 1 January 2011 on the islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius by the United States dollar.
In Curaçao and Sint Maarten, a new currency, the Caribbean guilder, was proposed in November 2020. Originally planned for implementation in the first half of 2021, it had been stalled repeatedly by negotiations over the establishment of a separate central bank for Curaçao. The new guilder was eventually launched on 31 March 2025. The Netherlands Antillean guilders remained legal tender until 30 June 2025, then the currency was officially withdrawn.
Naming
In Papiamentu, the local language of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, the guilder was called a "florin". The first two letters of the currency's ISO 4217 code, ANG, was the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code assigned to the Netherlands Antilles, and the third letter, G, came from Gulden. NAFl, sometimes used as an abbreviation for the currency, was derived from Netherlands Antilles Florin.
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