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2 Euro Saarland; Ruthenium
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (2009) - Stempelglanz, Briliant Uncirculated - 9,999 |
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The Saarland 2 Euro is part of Germany's long-running federal states series, each of the sixteen Bundesländer issued in sequence beginning in 2006. Saarland's turn came in 2009 — an appropriate fit given the territory's complicated twentieth-century history: occupied, administered as a semi-autonomous protectorate under French economic control from 1947, and only formally reunified with West Germany in January 1957 after a 1955 referendum rejected continued separation.
The ruthenium plating on this piece is a private aftermarket application, not an official Bundesbank issue. Ruthenium, one of the rarest platinum-group metals, is applied primarily for its blue-grey aesthetic contrast.