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200 Euro - Beatrix Amsterdam
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Composition | Silver (.999) (with 2 gram gold (999) kinebar) |
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| Reverse description | A three-quarter facing bust of Jan Pietersz. Sweelinck, the Dutch composer and organist (1562–1621), is depicted to the left in Renaissance attire with a decorative chain collar, set against radiating lines. In the upper right quadrant, a detailed VOC-era sailing ship is shown underway on choppy seas, flanked by the crowned Amsterdam city coat of arms. The lower right quadrant depicts a panoramic view of historic Amsterdam church architecture. The inscription JAN PIETERSZ. SWEELINCK 1562–1621 appears along the lower periphery, with 1997 and AMSTERDAM inscribed in the upper field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1997 AMSTERDAM JAN PIETERSZ. SWEELINCK 1562 - 1621 |
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This piece was issued to mark the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997, which significantly expanded EU citizenship rights and formally incorporated the Schengen Agreement into European law. The Netherlands had a particular stake in that treaty — Amsterdam was chosen as the signing city in part because of Dutch diplomatic pressure during their EU Council presidency that year.
The embedded kinebar — a small gold wafer produced by Heraeus with a distinctive holographic strip — was a novel security and prestige feature at the time, rarely incorporated into sovereign coinage. Heraeus had only developed the kinebar format in the 1980s.