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fwo_835464 - BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I 1 Franc 1834 Bruxelles

BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I 1 Franc  1834 Bruxelles VF
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : 1 Franc
Date: 1834
Mint name / Town : Bruxelles
Quantity minted : 482000
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,75 g.
Edge : cannelée
Coments on the condition:
Légères traces de nettoyage
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LEOPOLD PREMIER - ROI DES BELGES.
Obverse description : Tête de Léopold Ier à gauche, coiffée de la couronne de chêne ; signé BRAEMT. F sur la tranche du cou.

Reverse


Reverse legend : 1/ FRANC/ 1834/ *.
Reverse description : dans une couronne de chêne.

Commentary


Ce type a été frappé entre 1833 et 1844, suite à la loi du 5 juin 1832. Il ne fut démonétisé que par la loi du 7 mars 1867. La quantité officiellement refondue pour ce type laisse hors refontes officielles plus de 18% de l'émission. Les monnaies belges étant d'une très grande rareté - et tout particulièrement ce modèle - on peut en déduire plusieurs comportements. Tout d'abord que la refonte privée était combattue avec moins d'énergie en Belgique qu'en France, puisque, à frappe, date et type comparables, les monnaies belges sont beaucoup plus rares que les monnaies françaises. Par ailleurs, que les tensions de prix entre l'argent et l'or, celui-ci devenant relativement moins cher que l'argent, déclencha dans les années 1860, ont vu une recherche systématique des divisionnaires en 900 millièmes de pureté, payées en or, fondues, revendues contre de l'or au prix du métal argent, supérieur à la valeur faciale fondue. Il faut donc imaginer des milliers de caissiers prélevant systématiquement dans la circulation toutes ces monnaies de Léopold Ier pour comprendre leur rareté actuelle..
This type was minted between 1833 and 1844, following the law of June 5, 1832. It was only demonetized by the law of March 7, 1867. The officially remelted quantity for this type leaves more than 18% of the issue outside official remelts. Since Belgian coins are extremely rare - and this model in particular - several behaviors can be deduced. First of all, private remelting was fought with less energy in Belgium than in France, since, with comparable mintage, date and type, Belgian coins are much rarer than French coins. Furthermore, the price tensions between silver and gold, the latter becoming relatively cheaper than silver, triggered in the 1860s, saw a systematic search for divisionaries in 900 thousandths of purity, paid in gold, melted down, resold for gold at the price of silver metal, higher than the melted face value. We must therefore imagine thousands of cashiers systematically removing all these coins of Leopold I from circulation to understand their current rarity.

Historical background


BELGIUM - KINGDOM OF BELGIUM - LEOPOLD I

(4/06/1831-10/12/1865)

Leopold (16/12/1790-10/12/1865) is the son of François de Saxe-Cobourg and the uncle of Victoria I. He fights Napoleon in the Russian army. Naturalized English in 1816, he married Charlotte of Hanover and found himself a widower the following year. Léopold had just refused the crown of Greece when he was elected King of the Belgians on June 4, 1831. The following year, he married Louise d'Orléans (1812-1850), the daughter of Louis-Philippe. She gives him three children including Leopold II and Charlotte, the unfortunate wife of Maximilian of Austria, shot in Mexico. He is morganatically married to the actress Caroline Bauer from whom he must separate to marry the daughter of the King of the French. The London Conference of July 1831 settled territorial problems and the treaty of eighteen articles was accepted by the National Congress on July 9, 1831. Leopold was triumphantly welcomed on July 21, 1831. He had to fight against the Dutch army and received the nickname of "shield of Belgium", safeguarding the independence of the "flat country" against the Prussia of William I and the France of Napoleon III. He relies politically on England.

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