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25 ECU - Beatrix Wilhelmina - 40th Anniversary Liberation WWII
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a truncated bareheaded effigy of Queen Wilhelmina facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed wavy hair. Behind the portrait, a low-relief scene depicts celebrating crowds of figures with raised arms and flags, evoking the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945. Flanking the effigy on both sides, a typographic multi-line inscription reads BEVRIJDING BETEKENT HET HERLEVEN VAN ALLE VRIJHEDEN, arranged in a bold, decorative lettering style. The facsimile signature Wilhelmina appears beneath the bust in the lower field. |
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The Netherlands marked the fiftieth anniversary of its liberation from German occupation — not the fortieth, despite what the coin's name suggests — in 1995. Liberation came in May 1945, making this a half-century commemoration. The ECU itself never circulated as legal tender in the Netherlands; these silver issues were struck as collector pieces during the EU's transitional currency period, before the guilder gave way to the euro.