Catalogue information

LastDodo number
218635
Area
Coins
Title
Netherlands combination set 2001 "Een eerste kennismaking..."
Face value
Year
2001
Variety / overstrike
Type
Material
Weight
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Thickness
Shape
Obverse
Reverse
Edge
Number produced
16.000.000
Krause and Mishler number
KM# MS
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Details

At the end of 2001, VVD Minister Zalm of Finance wanted to give every Dutch person a bag of euro coins as a gift. With this 'Salmon Kit' citizens could get used to the euro, so that the switch from the guilder to the new currency on 1 January 2002 went more smoothly. Officially this was called the 'starter's kit', but in the corridors it has been christened 'Zalmkit', analogous to the Zalmsnip (the tax relief of 100 guilders paid out twice). The contents of the Salmon Kit are a set of all eight euro coins – 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 euro cents and 1 and 2 euros – with a value of 3.88 Euro or 8.55 guilders.

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