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10 Euros - Willem-Alexander Market Garden
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central effigy of King Willem-Alexander facing right, rendered in the style of an embroidered military badge. A circular legend surrounds the portrait, reading KONING DER NEDERLANDEN WILLEM-ALEXANDER, with the year of issue 2019 along with the Utrecht mint mark and the mintmaster's privy mark incorporated within the lettering. The overall design evokes the decorative textile aesthetic of wartime insignia. |
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| Obverse lettering | KONING DER NEDERLANDEN WILLEM-ALEXANDER 2019 |
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Operation Market Garden, launched in September 1944, was Field Marshal Montgomery's ambitious attempt to seize a series of bridges across the Rhine and end the war by Christmas. It failed — most catastrophically at Arnhem, where the 1st British Airborne Division was effectively destroyed holding the north end of the road bridge for nine days against SS Panzer forces. The Dutch civilian population suffered further as a direct consequence: German reprisals and the subsequent Hongerwinter of 1944–45 killed an estimated 18,000 to 22,000 people through starvation.
The 75th anniversary timing of this issue coincides with a period of renewed Dutch public engagement with wartime memory, particularly around Arnhem and Nijmegen.