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50 Gulden - Beatrix Anniversary of Liberation
| Issuer | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 25 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Queen Beatrix in three-quarter left-facing portrait, rendered in a bold, minimalist linear style characteristic of late 20th-century Dutch coinage. The queen's facial features, hair, and neck are delineated with clean, spare lines against a smooth, unadorned field. The vertical legend to the right of the portrait reads BEATRIX KONINGIN DER NEDERLANDEN, set in a distinctive stencil-style typeface arranged in four lines. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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The 50th anniversary of the Netherlands' liberation from German occupation in May 1945 prompted a wave of commemorative issues across Dutch institutions, this coin among them. The liberation itself concluded a brutal final winter — the Hongerwinter of 1944–45 — during which an estimated 20,000 Dutch civilians died of starvation in the occupied western provinces after a failed Allied airborne operation and a subsequent German food blockade.
Queen Beatrix, who was born in 1938 and spent the war years in exile in Canada with the royal family, held particular personal connection to the commemoration.