New Currency for Curaçao and Sint Maarten

A country that has issued not just a new family of banknotes and coins, but a whole new currency, is Curaçao and Sint Maarten, where the Caribbean guilder (Gg) went into circulation on 31 March, replacing the Netherlands Antilles guilder.

The change has been a long time coming, given that the Netherlands Antilles – comprising Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustatius, and Saba – was dissolved in 2010, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was then decided that the two countries would form a monetary union with a shared central bank and one currency – the Caribbean Guilder (Cg) – but the old currency continued to circulate whilst stocks lasted.