Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 ECU - Beatrix J. R. Thorbecke
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint |
|---|---|
| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Left-facing bust of Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, the eminent Dutch statesman and liberal politician, rendered in high relief against a detailed background depicting the historic Binnenhof complex in The Hague, with its characteristic stepped gable facades and towers visible on both sides. The inscription JOHAN RUDOLF THORBECKE is divided across the lower field in two lines, with his birth and death years 1798-1872 inscribed beneath, separated by a stylized water motif. The initials BS, referencing the designer, appear on the reverse. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Utrecht) |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
This piece honors Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, the liberal statesman who drafted the Dutch constitution of 1848 — a revision that fundamentally shifted power away from the monarchy toward an elected parliament, making William II a constitutional rather than absolute sovereign. The reform came during a year when revolutions were toppling governments across Europe; the Netherlands avoided that fate largely because Thorbecke's draft was already in motion.
The ECU series issued by the Royal Dutch Mint in the 1990s occupied an odd legal space: denominated in a currency that existed only as a unit of account, never as circulating tender in the Netherlands.