Issued to mark the 1998 visit of Queen Beatrix to London, this piece was produced by the Royal Dutch Mint as part of a broader program of large-format silver issues aimed squarely at the collector market. The embedded gold kinebar — a thin laminated gold strip bonded into the silver field — was a proprietary technique developed by Engelhard, used on a small number of Dutch collector issues during this period as a novelty differentiator.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog places it outside the regular currency series entirely. It was never legal tender in any practical sense and saw no circulation.
Issued to mark the 1998 visit of Queen Beatrix to London, this piece was produced by the Royal Dutch Mint as part of a broader program of large-format silver issues aimed squarely at the collector market. The embedded gold kinebar — a thin laminated gold strip bonded into the silver field — was a proprietary technique developed by Engelhard, used on a small number of Dutch collector issues during this period as a novelty differentiator.
The X# prefix in the Krause catalog places it outside the regular currency series entirely. It was never legal tender in any practical sense and saw no circulation.