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Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder: research record

Evidence coverage: 1933–2025. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.

This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.

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Currency continuity

Curaçao / Antillean / Caribbean guilder

XCG · Research draft

Account-unit continuity supported by the revision 23 source review; a naming, issuer or scale change does not supply a distinct ancestor.

One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Current currency in the inherited endpoint register.
Dated observations: 1933–2025; this does not establish the entire lifetime.

Parents / predecessors

Dutch guilder (euro predecessor)account unit branching · 1937–1943
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Children / successors

Aruban florinterritorial currency separation · 1986
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Siblings

Names and unit scales 2 records

These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.

Caribbean guilder2025–2025 · source record FTM000342
Curaçao / Netherlands Antillean guilderUndated–Undated · source record FTM000341
Unit and issue records 3 records

Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.

Caribbean Guilder — endpoint research dossierFTM000718 · C544
Earlier accounting observation · C1190
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. · C1297

Latest research

Earlier unit continuity

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.

Sources and qualifications →
Earlier unit continuity

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.

Sources and qualifications →
Historical account research

Royaldecision17October1942 acceptsCuraçaomonetaryseparation after1941petition.

Sources and qualifications →
Modern account-unit review

Archivalresearch documentsDutch-to-Curaçaounit separation culminatinginroyalapproval17October1942 andthe1943regulation, followingearlierdisputes. Replacevague1827–1945envelope by evidencedseparationprocess; do notassign1937noteissue as exactbirth.

Sources and qualifications →

Account-unit observations

Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.

1933qualified

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.

C1297
1942supported

Royaldecision17October1942 acceptsCuraçaomonetaryseparation after1941petition.

C1474
Monetary history 1 events

Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.

31 March 2025Currency transition

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.

C544
Evidence & research notes 7 claims

Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.

Supported C544

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.

Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten · PB 2025-008: Caribbean Guilder Officially Legal Tender Citation S278 · Open source ↗

Indexed dated announcement, opening paragraph

Source access and limitations

Recover full issuer release and original transition instruments; verify par conversion and separate tender/redemption deadlines.

Relevant indexed source passage inspected; full-body retrieval failed or yielded a script/block page.

Inference C1167

The Curaçao/Antillean guilder developed from the Dutch monetary system introduced in 1827 into a separate territorial system documented by the wartime period. The 1827–1945 range is a research envelope; the legal separation date remains unresolved.

Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V23-007. Replacevague1827–1945envelope by evidencedseparationprocess; do notassign1937noteissue as exactbirth. Replacement evidence: C1597.

Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Coins History · Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Coins History Citation S563 · Open source ↗

The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Banknotes History · Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten Money Museum: Curaçao Banknotes History Citation S564 · Open source ↗

The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten · Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten, English translation Citation S562 · Open source ↗

The Dutch coinage system; A Separate Series of Coins for the Antilles; 1827 issue; Netherlands Antilles; Bank v/d Nederlandse Antillen; Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full statutory English translation inspected.

Inference C1190

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.

Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten · Common Monetary System Regulations for Curaçao and Sint Maarten, English translation Citation S562 · Open source ↗

Articles 3,16–18,20; PDF pp.4,7–8

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Full statutory English translation inspected.

Supported C1125

Antillean guilder → Aruban florin, 1986.

Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025 Citation S98 · Open source ↗

AWG entry, currency history; Bundesbank PDF, 24 September 2025 edition.

Source access and limitations

Historical reference, not a 2026 legal-status audit.

Only selected country milestones used.

Inference C1297

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.

United States Department of Commerce · Monetary Use of Silver in 1933 Citation S541 · Open source ↗

Algeria pp.16–17 / PDF 21–22; Angola p 17 / PDF 22; Mozambique p 85 / PDF 90; Nyasaland p 92 / PDF 97; Northern and Southern Rhodesia pp 104–105 / PDF 109–110; Dutch colonial systems p 85 / PDF 90

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1474

Royaldecision17October1942 acceptsCuraçaomonetaryseparation after1941petition.

L.M.J. Boegheim · De aanmuntingen voor de Nederlandse koloniën gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de U.S.A., JMP80(1993) Citation S735 · Open source ↗

Printedp235; notexactuniversalunitbirth

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

Supported C1597

Archivalresearch documentsDutch-to-Curaçaounit separation culminatinginroyalapproval17October1942 andthe1943regulation, followingearlierdisputes.

L.M.J. Boegheim · De aanmuntingen voor de Nederlandse koloniën gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de U.S.A., JMP80(1993) Citation S735 · Open source ↗

Printedpp234–235/PDF46–47,notes106–108

Source access and limitations

Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.

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