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100 ECU - Beatrix J. R. Thorbecke
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Weight | 3.36 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.