Forget Russia or China- Why the Netherlands May Be First to Launch a Gold Backed Currency

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The Netherlands (and likely Germany as well) made concrete plans in 2012 to switch to a new currency in case the euro would crash.   Not long after the emergency currency was ready the Dutch began repatriating 122.5 tonnes of gold from New York.
This can be very important as there is a possibility the Euro-crisis will ignite again.
Monday we learned Greece will have new elections on January 25 that could bring the anti-bailout Syriza party to power, risking Greece’s membership of the Eurozone.
Will the first nation to launch a new gold-backed currency be Russia China The Netherlands??

 Submitted by Koos Jansen:

What Do We Know?

Researchers from Argos Medialogica, a Dutch TV documentary about Greece and the Eurocrisis 2010-2012 (broadcasted November 18, 2014), were told the Dutch emergency currency was called the Florijn. The voice over in the documentary states:

One of the emergency scenarios, according to anonymous sources, is the introduction of a new Dutch currency, the Florijn.

A spokesperson from the Dutch Ministry Of Finance couldn’t confirm nor deny the Florijn back-up plan. “We were prepared for everything, but our main goal was to keep the euro together”, said the spokesperson. Klaas Knot, Governor of the Dutch Central Bank since July 2011, stated the following in an interview in March 2014:

Interviewer: Were there moments on which you thought, it’s going to collapse? The euro will collapse in 2012; we’re going to lose it?

Klaas Knot: There certainly have been moments that I thought about this. There were also moments that we started to think, within the central bank, about emergency scenarios, we made preparations.

Interviewer: You made those preparations, back to the guilder? [the guilder was the Dutch currency before the euro]

Klaas Knot: If it would have been the guilder is not sure, but yes, we were prepared for scenarios in which we were confronted with the collapse of the euro. And then you must think of course, what are we going to do? No matter how much we didn’t want this scenario to happen. You must, as a central banker, always be prepared for all possible outcomes.  

Interviewer: If I would ask you in ten years, or perhaps you can answer this question now; we were, at that moment, dangerously close to a financial meltdown in Europe? And when was this? 

Klaas Knot: It was in the summer of 2012, also previously in late 2011. There were two occasions on which we had to act. We had to do something that was within our mandate. We had the feeling we were in trapped a situation that we didn’t cause. We had to act, we were the only ones that could act, and we did act. It was a situation I never want to be in again.