| Description : Henry of Orange‐Nassau (1820‐1879) was appointed
Governor of Luxembourg in 1850 by his brother William III, who was Grand Duke of Luxembourg and at the same time King of
the Netherlands and Duke of Limburg in personal union. He held this office until his death. To the left of the present Grand
Duke Henri, the coin designer Herbert Wähner has depicted Prince Henry (whose mother Anna Pavlovna was Grand Duchess
of Russia) in the style of a painting from 1870 now in the Alexander Palace in Pushkin near St. Petersburg, but reversed
to the original. On the left, in a semicircle, is "Prince Henri d'Orange‐Nassau" (Prince Henry of Orange‐Nassau).
Below his portrait are the dates of life "1820" and "1879", below "LUXEMBOURG" (Luxembourg in French) and the year of issue
"2020", flanked by two mint marks. These exist in three different combinations: On coins in rolls, the national mint mark, the
Luxembourg lion with double tail, is depicted on the left and a staff of Hermes the mint mark of the Dutch mint Koninklijke
Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht is shown on the right. Coincards also show the staff of Hermes on the right, but the
Servaasbrug (Sint‐Servaas Bridge in Maastricht) the logo of mint master Stephan Satijn on the left. This is also
shown on the left side of coins produced in the Proof manufactoring process, but with the Luxembourg lion with double
tail on the right side. |
