2 ECU - Beatrix Sail '95 Amsterdam - Eendracht I

Issued to mark the Sail Amsterdam 1995 maritime festival, this piece belongs to a short-lived series of ECU-denominated collector coins produced by several European mints during the late 1980s and 1990s — a period when the ECU existed as a basket currency unit but never circulated as physical coinage. The Dutch mint was among the more prolific issuers of these semi-official pieces, which occupied an awkward legal space: denominated in a unit with no coin of its own.

The Eendracht referenced here is the 17th-century VOC vessel whose name translates as "unity" — the original ship completed a circumnavigation under Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in 1616.