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5 Euros - Willem Alexander Dutch Waterlines, silver
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Composition | Silver (.925) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a stylized, geometric low-polygon map of the Netherlands, with the outline of the country rendered in the same faceted artistic style as the obverse portrait. The map highlights the historic Hollandic Waterlines defensive flood zones through contrasting hatched and plain surfaces. The bold legend 'HOLLANDSE WATERLINIES' arcs in large capitals around the outer periphery, reading clockwise. The date '2025' and denomination '5€' appear in the upper left field. A curved secondary inscription 'Stelling van Amsterdam + Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie' runs along the lower right inner border in smaller lettering. |
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The Dutch Waterline — the inundation defense system used to flood low-lying polders and halt advancing armies — was employed as recently as 1940, when it briefly slowed the German advance before the Luftwaffe rendered it obsolete. This coin marks the completion of the New Dutch Waterline's UNESCO World Heritage listing process, which concluded in 2021 after years of joint nomination efforts between the Netherlands and Belgium covering over 85 kilometers of forts, sluices, and inundation fields.