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2 Euros - Willem-Alexander 50th Birthday, Colored
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2017 - Proof - 4,000 |
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The Netherlands has issued colored circulating commemoratives sparingly, and this 2017 piece — marking Willem-Alexander's fiftieth birthday — was pad-printed after striking, a process the Royal Dutch Mint applied to a limited production run intended primarily for collector sets rather than everyday commerce. Willem-Alexander acceded to the throne in April 2013 following his mother Beatrix's abdication, making him the first Dutch king in over a century after three consecutive queens regnant.
The pad-printing process is notoriously vulnerable to handling damage, which explains why unimpaired examples are harder to source than the mintage figures alone would suggest.