Live auction - feu_522133 - BELGIUM 10 Cent Albert II, premier type (stries fines) 1999 Bruxelles

BELGIUM 10 Cent Albert II, premier type (stries fines) 1999 MS

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Estimate :	3 500 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	05 March 2019 19:28:19

Type : 10 Cent Albert II, premier type (stries fines)

Date: 1999

Mint name / Town : Bruxelles

Quantity minted : nc

Metal : nordic gold

Diameter : 19,75 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 4,04 g.

Edge : stries fines

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Reverse

Commentary

Tout comme la France, la Belgique anticipa la production en masse des pièces Euro bien avant 2002. Mais en 1998 la commission de Bruxelles modifia les caractéristiques techniques des pièces de 10 Cent Euro. En effet, suite à des réclamations de représentants de mal-voyants, il fut décidé qu’une tranche à larges cannelures remplacerait la tranche à stries fines initialement prévue sur les pièces de 10 Cent Euro. Nous pouvons donc référencer cette monnaie comme étant le type I de la 10 Cent Euro belge. Cette 10 Cent Albert II, premier type (stries fines), est apparu sur le marché des collectionneurs en 2018 suite à la fermeture des ateliers de frappe de la Monnaie Royale de Belgique (qui a maintenant délégué la frappe des Euros belges à la Monnaie des Pays-Bas).
Like France, Belgium anticipated the mass production of Euro coins well before 2002. But in 1998 the Brussels commission modified the technical characteristics of the 10 Cent Euro coins. Indeed, following complaints from representatives of the visually impaired, it was decided that a wide-fluted edge would replace the finely ridged edge initially planned for the 10 Cent Euro coins. We can therefore refer to this coin as Type I of the Belgian 10 Cent Euro. This 10 Cent Albert II, first type (fine ridges), appeared on the collectors' market in 2018 following the closure of the minting workshops of the Royal Mint of Belgium (which has now delegated the minting of Belgian Euros to the Mint of the Netherlands).