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20 Euro Cents Pattern
| Issuer | Netherlands Antilles |
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| Year | 2004 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, her hair elaborately coiffed and adorned with a decorative hair ornament, set within a raised rotated square (diamond-shaped) cartouche at the center of the field. Twelve six-pointed stars encircle the periphery of the round flan in the manner of the Euro coinage series. The legend NEDERLANDSE is inscribed along the upper-left side of the cartouche, ANTILLEN along the lower-right side, with AUTONOOM at lower-left and the commemorative dates 1954-2004 at lower-right, marking fifty years of Netherlands Antilles autonomy. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Netherlands Antilles never formally joined the Eurozone and retained the Netherlands Antillean guilder until the territory's dissolution in 2010. This 2004 pattern was struck as part of a speculative or promotional exercise — several Caribbean territories associated with EU member states explored euro-denomination coinage during the early 2000s, none of which entered circulation.
The Nordic gold alloy used here is the same copper-aluminum-zinc-tin composition adopted for the genuine 10, 20, and 50 euro cent series, suggesting the piece was produced to full specification rather than as a purely decorative issue.