| Description : On the 28th of April 1961, Grand Duchess Charlotte
appointed Prince Jean as her Governor, whereby the Hereditary Grand Duke took over the official duties of Luxembourg's Head of
State on behalf of his mother. The coin design, based on a design concept by the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg - BCL
(Luxembourg Central Bank), features the portraits of the three successive rulers, Grand Duchess Charlotte, Grand Duke Jean
and the current Grand Duke Henri, with their names "Charlotte", "Jean" and "Henri" below them. The motif is surrounded by
ten concentric circles of writing, each of which reads in fourfold repetition:
"Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg ‐ Grand‐Duché de Luxembourg ‐ Großherzogtum Luxemburg". At the top
is the country name "LËTZEBUERG" (Luxembourg) and above it the year of issue "2011", flanked on the right by an Hermes
staff the mint mark of the Dutch mint Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht and on the left by the sails of the
three‐masted clipper Nederland the logo of mint master Maarten Brouwer. |
