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10 ECU - Beatrix Netherlands-Russia
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN 1997 10 ECU |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in the conventional sense but existed as a basket currency used for European Community accounting and financial instruments from 1979 onward. The Netherlands issued a sustained series of silver ECU collector pieces through the 1990s, pairing Dutch royalty with foreign heads of state in a format that was as much diplomatic gesture as numismatic product. The Russia pairing reflects the post-Soviet warming of relations between Western Europe and the Russian Federation in the mid-1990s, a window that closed considerably within the decade.
The ECU itself was superseded by the euro on January 1, 1999 — making 1997 issues among the final strikes in the series.