Coins schoonmaken: volgens vele verzamelaars is dit een taboe. Het is een veel besproken onderwerp in de numismatiek en de meningen zijn en blijven dan ook verdeeld. In deze blog geven we een overzicht van mogelijke behandelmethoden en de voor- en nadelen.

In addition to the Kingdom coins of the Netherlands another collecting area is also available, namely provincial coinage. This collecting area contains an interesting history about the birth and demise of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. In this blog you will read about the origin of the coins, the different provinces, and the different coin values that were issued under the leadership of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

On June 14, 1976, a new fiver put into circulation. This fiver may have had a similar subject matter to the earlier paper fiver and a portrait of Vondel, but the style was more similar to the rest of Oxenaar's heirloom series. Joost van den Vondel was a seventeenth-century playwright and poet and over the years has also received nicknames such as "the Cologne swan" or the "prince of poets.