| Description : The coin, designed by Roosje Klap and Claudia
Linders, shows the silhouettes of the six former kings of the Netherlands and the current monarch, Willem‐Alexander.
The silhouettes, which are intertwined in chronological order from back to front, correspond to the images of
the regents on earlier circulation coins. The way the heads are facing, to the right or left, alternates with each change
of throne. Around the outside of the motif is the name and title of the reigning monarch "WILLEM‐ALEXANDER KONING OF
THE NETHERLANDS" (Willem‐Alexander King of the Netherlands) and the reason for this issue "200 JAAR KONINKRIJK"
(200 anniversary of the kingdom). At the bottom of the motif is the date "2013" and to the left of it the initials of
the two designers, a mirror‐inverted "RK" in front of "CL", to the right of the date are the sails of the
three‐mast clipper Nederland the logo of the mint master Maarten Brouwer and the staff of Hermes as mint
mark of the Royal Dutch mint Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt in Utrecht. The Royal Dutch Mint had 1,500 coins produced
in the proof process with an orange coloured band forming the outline of King Willem‐Alexander
(see picture). |
