2 Euros Bundesländer II - 'Saarland'

The Bundesländer series, launched in 2006, cycles through all sixteen German federal states in alphabetical order — Saarland falls fourteenth. The state itself has one of the more convoluted territorial histories in postwar Europe: detached from Germany after 1945 and administered as a French protectorate, the Saar held a referendum in 1955 in which 67.7% of voters rejected the proposed Europeanisation statute, effectively forcing reunification with West Germany, which completed politically in 1957 and economically in 1959.

Each Bundesländer issue is struck across all five German mints, differentiated by the A, D, F, G, and J mint marks.