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5 Euros - Beatrix Friendship with Japan
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Composition | Silver plated copper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features an intricate arrangement of overlapping stylized ribbons bearing the inscriptions 'NEDERLAND' and 'JAPAN' in Latin script, with the Japanese numeral '400年' incorporated into the design. Scattered across the field are representations of stylized historical Japanese coins, one of which displays the face value '5 EURO' and another the year '2009'. The overall composition employs bold geometric hatching and contrasting surface textures in the manner of contemporary commemorative design. The layout reinforces the bilateral theme of Dutch-Japanese friendship and four centuries of commercial exchange. |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date) |
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Issued to mark 400 years of Dutch-Japanese relations, this coin commemorates the 1609 arrival of the VOC trading post at Hirado — the first permanent European commercial presence in Japan. The Dutch were ultimately the only Western nation permitted to remain after the Tokugawa shogunate expelled Portuguese and Spanish traders in the 1630s, confining VOC merchants to the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbor for over two centuries. That monopoly made the Netherlands Japan's sole window to European science and medicine during the entire Edo period.
The silver-plated copper composition places this firmly as a circulation-quality commemorative rather than a collector proof issue.