Fifty cent

The 50 cent coins show the Orange Blossom on the obverse side.
Country
Sint Maarten
Release Date
March 31, 2025
Edge:

A bold rim connects the obverse and reverse of each coin to edge patterns, indentations and reeding that are unique to each denomination.

Visual highlights front:

“Sint Maarten” connects a stylized Caribbean sky and ocean waves.

Orange Blossom are associated with good fortune across many cultures and symbolize purity, virtue, and fertility. One of the rarest flowers, Orange Blossom bloom and bear fruit simultaneously and are thus a symbol of fruitfulness.

Visual highlights Back:

Favoured Tellin shells are found throughout the Caribbean and can grow to exceed 7 centimeters in diameter. Their creamy white shells are often covered with a camouflaging layer of algae and other organisms.

The denomination sits between the Caribbean sky and waves in the center of a constellation of thirty equally spaced pearls.

Three groups of ten pearls. The “three 10s” are a reference to the date October 10, 2010 when Sint Maarten and Curaçao became autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the starting point of the Caribbean guilder.

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