Token - 25 Boordgeld Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland

Features

Location	Netherlands
Type	Trade tokens › Business tokens
Year	1953
Currency	Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001)
Composition	Aluminium
Weight	1.4 g
Diameter	25.3 mm
Thickness	1.5 mm
Shape	Rhombus
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 70411
References	Kooij# BS003.4 Adrianus Johannes Kooij; 2008. Catalogus van Nederlandse betaal- en reclamepenningen = Catalogue of Dutch Payment and Advertising Tokens (3^rd Edition). Mevius Numisbooks, Vriezenveen, Netherlands.

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Obverse

Value and legend

Script: Latin

Lettering: STOOMV.MIJ."NEDERLAND".AMSTERDAM. BOORDGELD 25

Reverse

SMN, logo of the Stoomvaart shipping line.

Script: Latin

Lettering: SMN

Unabridged legend: Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland

Edge

Plain

Comments

Most were struck in 1947. After the second world war, the gulden was not convertible and the economy was in a shambles. Unemployment was quite high. Many chose to emigrate, rather than wait for things to get better. Emigration countries were mostly Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands Antilles and Surinam.

MSN had regular services to most of these countries and what is now Indonesia, which became unsafe quickly. They could not accept Dutch currency on board, as it was not allowed to import or export Dutch money, but they did want people to spend money on board. These tokens could be bought before boarding and spent on the ships. Values are 5, 10, 25 (square), 25 (round), 50 cents, 1, 2-1/2 gulden. A 5 gulden piece was added in 1948.

In 1953, the round 25 cents tokens were replaced by square ones, because the round tokens had the same size as the US quarters, and were used in parking meters and vending machines in the US.

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Date			Mintage		VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1953)			100 000				$ 2.30

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