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21/2 Euro - Schiedam de 3 Koornbloemen
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Reverse description | The central design features the commemorative memorial stone of the windmill 'De Drie Koornbloemen', rendered in detailed relief and combined with the large toothed spurwheel characteristic of a traditional Dutch grain windmill. The spurwheel's interlocking teeth are rendered with precision, conveying the mechanical heritage of Schiedam's milling industry. The legend 'DE DRIE KOORN BLOEMEN' arcs across the upper field, with the foundation year '1770' inscribed in the lower portion of the design. |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1810-date) |
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The "Stadspenningen" series, launched by the Royal Dutch Mint in the 1990s, produced city tokens for municipalities across the Netherlands — legal-tender pieces technically denominated in guilder-era euro equivalents before the currency transition made them curiosities almost immediately. Schiedam's entry commemorates De 3 Koornbloemen, one of the last surviving working windmills in a city that once operated the densest concentration of industrial windmills in the world, primarily driving the jenever distilling trade that defined the town's economy for two centuries.