1914, Netherlands. Beautiful 18K Gold "WWI Refugees Support" Medal. NGC UNC+

Mint Year: 1914
Reference: KB.1109.
Medallist: J.C. Wienecke
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as UNC (Details: Mount Removed!)
Denomination: Steunpenning (Support Medal) - This issue was sold to raise money for the benefit of WWI refugees in the Netherlands. There were bronze, silver and gold medals. The golden ones are of course the rarest ones!
Material: Gold (.750)
Weight: ca. 2.5gm
Diameter: 17mm

Obverse: Crowned rampart lion, holding sword and seven arrows in paws within gated fence.
Legend: JE MAINTIENDRAI ("I will Endeavour!")

Reverse: Inscribed table, topped by royal lis symbol on palm-branch flanked by fruitful orange sprays.
Legend: STEUN- -PENNING 1914

Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 31 January 1938) is a member of the Dutch royal family who reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until her abdication on 30 April 2013.

Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother's accession in 1948, she became heir presumptive. Beatrix attended a public primary school in Canada during World War II, and then finished her primary and secondary education in the Netherlands in the post-war period. In 1961, she received her law degree from Leiden University. In 1966, Beatrix married Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat, with whom she had three children. When her mother abdicated on 30 April 1980, Beatrix succeeded her as queen.

Beatrix's reign saw the country's Caribbean possessions reshaped with Aruba's secession and becoming its own constituent country within the Kingdom in 1986 as well as the subsequent Antillean Dissolution in 2010, which created the new special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, and the two new constituent countries of Curaçao and Sint Maarten.

On Koninginnedag (Queen's Day), 30 April 2013, Beatrix abdicated in favour of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander, and resumed the title of princess. At the time of her abdication at age 75, Beatrix was the oldest reigning monarch in the country's history.