Symbol of Dutch resistance to German occupation.

So here we have the Dutch cent, nominal - 5. The year of issue of this coin is 1942, mint: Utrecht, Netherland. Total circulation – 11.800.000.

Wilhelmina, was born in August 31 in 1880, The Hague. The daughter of King William III and his second wife, Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Wilhelmina became queen on her father’s death in November 23 in 1890, under her mother’s regency. She was inaugurated September 6, in 1898, at Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk, and soon gained widespread popular approval. On February 7 in 1901, she married Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and gave birth to a daughter, Princess Juliana, on April 30, 1909. During World War I, Wilhelmina was influential in maintaining the Netherlands’ neutrality.

When Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10 in 1940, Wilhelmina issued a proclamation to her nation of “flaming protest” and a few days later left for England with her family and members of the Cabinet. Throughout the war, she exhorted her people over Radio Orange to maintain their spirit until the nation’s liberation, and she was welcomed back with enthusiasm when the German occupation was ended in 1945.

After abdicating the throne in favour of Juliana on September 4, 1948, because of poor health, Wilhelmina retired to her palace, Het Loo, near Apeldoorn, where she died on 28 November 1962.