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 Posted 12/29/2006  02:00 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add edix to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
A friend of mine is currently doing business in Aruba and knows of my coin collecting interests so he brought me back some things from there upon his return.
He gave me a couple of single coins that are square. One piece is denominated at 50 cents and the other piece at five florin. He also gave me a 2006 Aruba proof/mint set that contains seven coins. In this set the five florin coin is round and is made of aluminum bronze instead of the nickel plated steel square five florin from a previous year that I have. So I guess the square florin is history now. Also worthy of note is what seems to be a micro-etching on the profile portrait of Queen Beatrix of a crown. I read on the Royal Scandinavian Mint website that the Aruba mint set has an issue limit of 2,000 sets. That doesn't seem like very many to me.
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 Posted 12/29/2006  02:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the heads-up on the Aruba 5 florin.

Aruba mint sets have had gradually declining mintages. When Aruba seceded in 1986, it had 36,000 minted. By 1993, mintage had fallen to under 10,000 and by 2003 (the last year figures are given in my 33rd ed. Krause) it was down to 2000. CV for the sets are typically in the $10-$15 range, with little appreciation (if any) from the issue price. I guess there just isn't much worldwide demand for Aruba sets.

"Royal Scandinavian Mint"? I'd have thought all Dutch territorial coins would come from the Royal Dutch Mint.
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 Posted 12/29/2006  03:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add edix to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I appreciate the info on the set mintages.
Perhaps if my friend is successful, there will be more tourists and thus more sets sold.
The Royal Scandinavian Mint says it's a North American distributor of various Scandinavian and related countries' numismatic products.
http://www.scandmint.com/
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I have one set of those, thanks to my Dutch friend Carl Tromp.
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