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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Euro, post: 1088327, member: 28879&quot;]For those interested.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Netherlands have issued their first national 2 Euro commemorative circulation coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Netherlands have laws stating their head of state (their present Queen) need be on circulation coins (value on one side, queen on the other. That&#039;s the idea)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As a result they were unable to issue 2 Euro commemoratives, because a Euro piece has one side that always has to be identical Eurozone wide (contains the denomination), a free side which in case of Holland contains an image of their queen and, ............. well, that would leave the edge to depict the topic of celebration <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They do seem to have altered the law a bit, because as of 2007 they have issued two 2 Euro pieces celebrating EU themes (there are 2 Euro pieces commemorating EU events).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now they have come up with their first national commemorative. I was curious how they would solve the dilemma.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Personally, I find the most elegant solution would have been not participating in this 2 Euro &quot;business&quot; at all. I really liked the Dutch abstinence as to simply NOT issuing 2 Euro commemoratives for every happy occasion. I wonder how long it will be kept up to &quot;swamp&quot; the market with these coins (no offense meant to anyone liking them!). I just suspect that in 50 years time these will have become such a nuisance to shop keepers (who will not be able to quickly distinguish between official coins and fakes with topics like &quot;Bart Simpson, 25th Royal Anniversary as King of Bavaria&quot; etc.) that they will refuse half of them. But we&#039;ll see.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In any case we&#039;ll see the first Dutch one. They came with a solution that is, in my opinion, both positive and negative: the queen stays. Both an image of the queen and the celebrated topic will have to be combined somehow. Very much like Luxemburg commemoratives.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Good: it&#039;s elegant to NOT adjust your laws and national tradition for something as trival as a 2 Euro commemorative (mostly horrible designs anyway <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). One has a queen or not and if one has she should be proudly all over one&#039;s coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Bad: this leaves little space for a commemorative design. If one cannot freely design but has to squeeze everything in, then why participating in such issues?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But enough ranting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Here it is. It commemorates the first edition of Erasmus&#039; very famous book Laus Stultitiae (Praise of Folly). The image of Erasmus is based on a painting featuring Erasmus.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There will 4.000.000 circulation coins, 10.000 BU coin cards and in 7000 proof coins. The design is by Dylan Shields (an art student at Northumbria Academy).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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