5 Euros - Willem-Alexander Jheronimus Bosch, 500th Anniversary

Hieronymus Bosch died in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1516, and the quincentenary prompted one of the Netherlands' more ambitious commemoration programs — the "Bosch500" initiative, which drew over 400,000 visitors to the Noordbrabants Museum for the largest-ever retrospective of his work. The Royal Dutch Mint issued this coin as part of that broader cultural effort, with the Netherlands reclaiming Bosch as a specifically Dutch national figure after centuries in which his major works had scattered to Madrid, Venice, and Vienna.

The 5 euro face value made it legal tender but effectively priced it out of circulation from issue day.