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10 ECU - Beatrix Willem Drees
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A realistic portrait bust of Willem Drees faces slightly left in three-quarter view, rendered in fine detail with his characteristic eyeglasses and suit. The vertical legend WILLEM DREES appears to the right of the portrait, with the birth and death years 1886-1988 inscribed vertically alongside. The design is executed in a restrained, dignified style befitting a commemorative portrait of the former Dutch Prime Minister. |
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| Mintage | 1998 |
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Willem Drees served as Dutch Prime Minister from 1948 to 1958, presiding over the reconstruction of the Netherlands and the construction of its welfare state — earning him the nickname "Vadertje Drees" among a population that genuinely revered him. He died in 1988 at the age of 101. This ECU issue appeared a decade after his death, in the final years before the euro rendered the ECU obsolete as a unit of account.
The Netherlands was among the more enthusiastic issuers of collector ECU pieces during the 1990s, using the denomination to commemorate national figures ahead of monetary union. The series ended with the euro's introduction in 1999.