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Fantasy - 5 Cents - Beatrix Friesland Province

Issuer Netherlands
Year 1981
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Currency Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001)
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Friesland never issued its own provincial coinage in the modern era, making this a fantasy piece with no historical monetary authority behind it. Items like this circulated almost exclusively among collectors in the 1980s, produced to satisfy demand for regional identity novelties rather than to replicate any genuine numismatic precedent. Queen Beatrix had ascended to the throne in April 1980, so her effigy was a natural choice for contemporary fantasy issues of this type.

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