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1 Centime - Léopold II
| Issuer | Congo Free State (1885-1908) |
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| Year | 1887-1888 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Congo Free State was not a national government but the personal property of Léopold II, registered to him privately at the 1884–85 Berlin Conference. No other territory in the colonial period was formally owned by a single individual rather than a sovereign state. These centimes were struck in Brussels and represent the earliest coinage of that arrangement — Léopold's mint issuing currency for a private empire roughly the size of Western Europe, administered through a regime later documented by E.D. Morel and Roger Casement for its systematic use of mutilation as labor enforcement.