Bonaire, Saba And Saint Eustatiusm - Offcial Currency?

The Netherlands Antilles, the last tiny remnants of the once-mighty Dutch Empire, has had a long and painful extinction, but it is now finally extinct.

The five remaining islands all voted in a four-option referendum on their status in 2005; only St Eustatius voted to remain in the Netherlands Antilles, and none of them voted for full independence as republics.

Bonaire and Saba voted to become integral parts of the Netherlands itself, with limited autonomy - in effect, becoming on par with other local city councils in the Netherlands, just like Martinique and Guadelupe are integral parts of France. Since there wasn't any point in having a "federation" with only one member, St Eustatius also chose limited autonomy.

They have not, and will not for the foreseeable future, issue their own separate coinages. According to Wikipedia, the three fully Dutch islands have switched to the US dollar. I assume they chose the dollar rather than the euro for practical reasons, because their economies are tourist-powered and most of the tourists come from the US; as "overseas territories" they are not automatically considered part of the Eurozone, though apparently this status is scheduled to be revised in 2015.

The other two former members of the Netherlands Antilles, Curacao and St Maarten, voted to become separate nations under the Dutch crown, the same status held by Aruba (just like Canada and Australia are separate nations under the British crown). They still use the old Antillean guilder for now. They were originally going to be issuing their own separate currencies but now plan on replacing it with a new common currency, the "Caribbean guilder", next year.

This is the only "new' currency expected to emerge out of the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.

I've seen their new coins on a coin selling site. They must be NCLT or something unofficial. They are indeed dollar based

that's funny Sap. I have an OFEC collection and even though I either have things or have things on my want list that would not be classified 'real coins from real countries', I have been trying to limit it to at least NCLT from real countries or real coins from real coin issuing entities as listed in Krause.

I guess I will pass on them unless they can be had for a whole lot cheaper. Those are pretty expensive for tokens!