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100 ECU - Beatrix Jacob van Campen
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1996 |
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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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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in the Netherlands or anywhere else; it existed purely as a basket currency used for accounting within the European Monetary System. The Dutch mint nonetheless produced this and similar ECU-denominated collector pieces throughout the 1990s, a practice that skirted legality by issuing them under royal authority as medals with face values. Jacob van Campen designed the Amsterdam Town Hall, begun in 1648 — one of the largest secular buildings in seventeenth-century Europe, funded directly from Amsterdam's extraordinary commercial wealth at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age.