Lot 3750

Description

Netherlands, Willem III, one gulden, 1864; others, 1956, 1957; two and half guilder, 1932, 1960, five cents, 1907; collection of Netherlands boordgeld or ship money for the passenger ship, N.V.Stoomv.MIJ, Amsterdam, tokens for five (2), ten, twenty five (2), one hundred (2), two hundred and fifty and five hundred cents. Very fine - extremely fine. (15)

Boordgeld (board-money/ship money) consisted of metal and paper tokens issued by many Dutch shipping lines from 1946 through the mid-1970s. These tokens were used because of post war restrictions on foreign exchange and also to have a uniform system of currency because of the problems of many non-Dutch crew members trying to convert foreign currency tendered by passengers. On boarding passengers exchanged their currency for the ship board tokens (Boordgeld) which were the only form of currency accepted on board Dutch ships. Paper tokens were issued initially but later withdrawn and replaced by the metallic tokens.