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1 Dollar European Currency - The Netherlands
| Issuer | Liberia |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Weight | 58 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a detailed engraved vignette of a European urban streetscape, depicting classical architecture, a canal bridge, outdoor café tables and chairs, and tulip fields evoking the Netherlands. An authentic Netherlands 10 euro cent coin dated 1999 (KM# 237), bearing the effigy of Queen Beatrix and the legend BEATRIX KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN, is physically inset into the upper-right quadrant of the field. The trilingual legend EUROPEAN CURRENCY · EUROPÄISCHE WÄHRUNG · MONNAIE EUROPEENNE encircles the design along the border, with the date 1.1.2002 in the lower exergue commemorating the introduction of euro coinage. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Liberia ran an extended series of these oversized silver-plated commemoratives in the early 2000s, issuing dollar-denominated pieces tied to the euro conversion across multiple European nations. The Netherlands joined the eurozone on January 1, 2002, retiring the guilder after roughly 350 years of continuous use — one of the longer-lived currency traditions dissolved by monetary union.
Liberia had no meaningful connection to any of these countries. The series was produced for the collector market, not circulation, and the coins hold no legal tender utility in practice.