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ECU - Beatrix Anna Maria van Schurman
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Portrait bust of Anna Maria van Schurman facing three-quarters right, rendered in raised relief with finely detailed hair and period dress, occupying the right portion of the field. To the left, a silhouette profile of Queen Beatrix faces left. The upper arc of the coin features a blue enamel band bearing twelve five-pointed stars in the European Union style, with the legend NEDERLAND inscribed in large raised letters across the centre of the arc. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) was the first woman admitted to a European university when Utrecht allowed her to attend lectures in 1636 — behind a curtain, so as not to distract male students. She mastered fourteen languages, corresponded with Descartes, and later abandoned her intellectual celebrity entirely to join Jean de Labadie's radical pietist commune. The ECU series issued by the Netherlands in the 1990s used the format to spotlight Dutch cultural figures rather than political ones, which is why a scholar appears here rather than a statesman.