20 Euros - Philippe Commission for Relief in Belgium

The Commission for Relief in Belgium, the subject of this commemorative, was the civilian food relief organization that kept an estimated 10 million Belgians and northern French from starvation during the German occupation of World War I. Herbert Hoover ran it before his presidency, coordinating the largest humanitarian food operation the world had seen to that point. The Germans and British each had reasons to obstruct it; that it functioned at all required near-constant diplomatic negotiation.

The coin was issued under the "Philippe" series, Belgium's ongoing commemorative program launched after Albert II's abdication in 2013.