Netherlands Antilles, Constituent country of the Netherlands, 0.1 Gulden – 1962

Description

In 1948, the Curaçao colony and dependencies obtained the greatest possible degree of self-government with the Dutch Constitution of 1922. The Queen had promised to end colonial control in 1942, during the Anglo-American occupation of the colonies (with Dutch permission) during World War II. In 1948, a new Dutch Constitution, allowed to deepen autonomy more, which was achieved in 1951 with a new regulation for the colonies, which were renamed Dutch Antilles. In 1954 he took another step, recognizing an egalitarian status of the Dutch and Surinam Antilles in his belonging to the kingdom of the Netherlands. Aruba left the Dutch Antilles in 1986, then emerging several referendums on the future of the islands, resulting in a majority in favor of restructuring. In 2010 the Dutch Antilles was formally dissolved, enjoying Bonaire, San Eustaquio and Saba of a new status of special municipalities, and San Martín and Curaçao of greater autonomy, as voters had desired in the referendums.