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2 ECU - Beatrix Sail '95 Amsterdam - Eendracht I
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Dutch crowned lion rampant, the traditional heraldic symbol of the Netherlands, depicted in high relief. The legend KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination 2 ECU appears in the lower field. The date 1995 is inscribed to the left of the lion. A ring of twelve small stars encircles the design near the rim, referencing the European Community. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the Sail Amsterdam 1995 maritime festival, this piece belongs to a short-lived series of ECU-denominated collector coins produced by several European mints during the late 1980s and 1990s — a period when the ECU existed as a basket currency unit but never circulated as physical coinage. The Dutch mint was among the more prolific issuers of these semi-official pieces, which occupied an awkward legal space: denominated in a unit with no coin of its own.
The Eendracht referenced here is the 17th-century VOC vessel whose name translates as "unity" — the original ship completed a circumnavigation under Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in 1616.