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v08_1946 - CONGO - CONGO FREE STATE - LEOPOLD II 5 francs, 2e type 1887 Bruxelles

CONGO - CONGO FREE STATE - LEOPOLD II 5 francs, 2e type 1887 Bruxelles AU
AU
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 548.82 €
Estimate : 686.02 €
unsold lot
Type : 5 francs, 2e type
Date: 1887
Mint name / Town : Bruxelles
Quantity minted : 8000
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 37,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 24,95 g.
Edge : inscrite en relief * TRAVAIL ** ET ** PROGRES *
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Infimes petites marques de manipulation sur le listel. La pièce a été légèrement nettoyée / Très joli revers
Catalogue references :
KM/WC.19/1141/8-1  - Dav.525/10

Obverse

Obverse legend : LEOP. II R. D BELGES SOUV. DE L'ETAT INDEP. DU CONGO.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Léopold II à gauche ; signé au-dessous L. WIENER.

Reverse

Reverse legend : 5 FRANCS/ 1887.
Reverse description : Écu couronné du Congo soutenu par deux lions ; au-dessous, un bandeau inscrit en relief TRAVAIL ET PROGRES.

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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