20 Euro - Beatrix Maarten Harpertsz Tromp

Maarten Harpertsz Tromp was the Dutch admiral who famously — if apocryphally — sailed up the English Channel with a broom tied to his masthead, supposedly signaling he would sweep the English from the sea. The story is almost certainly myth, but it attached itself to Tromp so firmly that it became standard biographical furniture within decades of his death at the Battle of Scheveningen in 1653, where he was killed by a musket ball during what was otherwise a Dutch tactical success.

This commemorative falls under the Dutch ECU-related collector series of the 1990s, issued ahead of euro currency unification and cataloged outside the regular Krause sequence at X#146.