1961 AD., Netherlands, Juliana, Utrecht mint, 2½ Gulden, KM 185.
Netherlands, Juliana (1948-80), engraver: L. O. Wenchebach (reverse), Utrecht mint, 1961 AD.,
2½ Gulden (33 mm / 14,99 g), 0.720 silver, 15,00 g mint weight, varnished, mintage 10.000.000 , coin alignment ↑↓ (180°), plain edge with incuse inscription " GOD * ZIJ * MET * ONS * ",
Obv.: JULIANA KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN · , her head facing r., small W (engraver´s initial) below.
Rev.: 19 - 61 / 2½ - G / NEDERLAND , crowned shield of arms dividing value; on shield, a rampant lion left, holding sword and arrows; privy marks of the mint flanking: fish r. (to left at base of shield) and caduceus (to r.).
KM 185 .
Juliana, Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry. She was married to German aristocrat Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, with whom she had four children: Princess Beatrix (born 1938), Princess Irene (born 1939), Princess Margriet (born 1943), and Princess Christina (born 1947). During the Second World War she lived in exile with her children in Ottawa, Canada. She became Queen of the Netherlands with her mother's abdication in 1948 and was succeeded by Queen Beatrix after her own abdication in 1980. During her reign both Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) (proclaimed in 1945, recognized in 1949) and Suriname in 1975 became independent from the Netherlands. Her birthday was celebrated annually as Koninginnedag (Queen's Day), until the accession of her grandson King Willem-Alexander to the throne, when it was replaced with Koningsdag (King's Day). Upon her death at the age of 94, she was the longest-lived former ruling monarch in the world.