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10 Euros - Beatrix Royal Wedding
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Composition | Gold (.900) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents two facing silhouetted profiles of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima in an intimate confronted arrangement, their busts centrally positioned against a highly polished field. Above the couple, a stylised Argentine sun emblem appears over Willem-Alexander's profile and a cluster of twelve European stars floats above Máxima's, alluding to their respective national heritages. The circumferential legend, distributed along the full border, reads TWEE TWEE TWEEDUIZENDTWEE MÁXIMA WILLEM-ALEXANDER TIEN EURO, commemorating the date of the royal wedding in a distinctive typographic form. |
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Issued to mark the marriage of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander to Máxima Zorreguieta on February 2, 2002, this piece arrived with a degree of political sensitivity: Máxima's father, Jorge Zorreguieta, was a senior official in Argentina's military junta during the Dirty War and was explicitly barred from attending the wedding ceremony. The Dutch government commissioned a formal historical inquiry before the marriage was permitted to proceed.
The Royal Dutch Mint struck commemorative gold issues in relatively constrained quantities for this event, keeping collector demand firm. KM#244 is the gold denomination in a set that also included silver.