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Type : 2 Francs
Date: 1896
Mint name / Town : Bruxelles
Quantity minted : 100000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 835 ‰
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,92 g.
Edge : cannelée
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Nombreuses rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LEOP. II R. D. BELG. SOUV. DE L'ETAT INDEP. DU CONGO.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Léopold II à gauche ; signé au-dessous L. WIENER.
Reverse
Reverse legend : 2 FRANCS / 1896.
Reverse description : Écu couronné du Congo au-dessus de deux palmes croisées.
Historical background
CONGO - CONGO FREE STATE - LEOPOLD II
(1885-1908)
Leopold II (9/04/1835-17/12/1909) is the eldest son of Leopold I and Louise d'Orléans. He married Marie-Henriette, Archduchess of Austria, who bore him three daughters: Louise, Stéphanie, and Clémentine. He relied on England to repel the expansionist visions of Napoleon III in 1866-1869. His reign was marked by the economic development of Belgium on the industrial level. Belgium became a great colonial power thanks to the personal annexation of the Congo by the king at the Congress of Berlin in 1885. Without a male heir, his nephew Albert I succeeded him in 1909. King Leopold II had bequeathed the Congo to Belgium in 1908.
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