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2½ Euro - Schiedam de Walvisch
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Schiedam occupies the central field, flanked by two of the five surviving windmills of Schiedam rendered in relief. The date 1998 appears in the upper field, with the denomination 2½ EURO and the city name SCHIEDAM inscribed as a legend around the design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the commemorative memorial stone of the windmill De Walvisch, centrally positioned and combined with four stylised windmill sails bearing attached flag lines in relief. The name DE WALVISCH is inscribed as the principal legend, with the founding year 1794 appearing below in the field. |
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Schiedam's De Walvisch distillery, founded in 1640, was one of hundreds of jenever producers that made the city the undisputed center of Dutch gin production for over two centuries. By the late twentieth century, the industry had collapsed to a fraction of its former scale, and this 1998 issue belongs to the Nederlandse Euromunten series of 2½ euro town and trade commemoratives — a program that functioned more as civic documentation than celebration, recording what the Netherlands had largely already lost.