Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder
Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- XCG
- Ancestry branch
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Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder
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Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder
Dutch guilder
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
The Caribbean guilder became legal tender in Curaçao and Sint Maarten on 31 March 2025; the announcement records the first ceremonial exchange from Netherlands Antillean guilders that day. [1]
The 2025 Caribbean-guilder legislation carries Antillean-guilder deposits and legal instruments forward at 1:1. The two names are grouped as a continuing account unit under the project identity rule; this classification is an explicit inference. [2]
Antillean guilder → Aruban florin, 1986. [3]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Curaçao is reported within the Dutch monetary system in 1933. Add this territorial observation to the existing 1827–1945 qualified branch; it does not solve the exact separation date. [4]
Account-unit observation
Royaldecision17October 1942 acceptsCuraçaomonetaryseparation after 1941 petition. [5]
Sources and evidence
- Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten · PB 2025-008: Caribbean Guilder Officially Legal Tender C544 ↗
- Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten · Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten, English translation C1190 ↗
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 C1125 ↗
- United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 C1297 ↗
- L.M.J. Boegheim · De aanmuntingen voor de Nederlandse koloniën gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de U.S.A., JMP80(1993) C1474 ↗
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“Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000342.html