Germany hosted UEFA Women's Euro 2011 that summer, and the national team had won the previous three European championships — 2005, 2007, and 2009 — making the tournament something of a coronation on home soil. The commemorative program was authorized under Germany's standing framework for €10 issues, which had by 2011 produced dozens of collector pieces in both silver and this copper-nickel format intended for general circulation at face value. The copper-nickel variant carries the "KN" suffix precisely to distinguish it from the .925 silver proof issue struck simultaneously.
Germany hosted UEFA Women's Euro 2011 that summer, and the national team had won the previous three European championships — 2005, 2007, and 2009 — making the tournament something of a coronation on home soil. The commemorative program was authorized under Germany's standing framework for €10 issues, which had by 2011 produced dozens of collector pieces in both silver and this copper-nickel format intended for general circulation at face value. The copper-nickel variant carries the "KN" suffix precisely to distinguish it from the .925 silver proof issue struck simultaneously.