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10 Centimes - Albert I French text, with star
| Issuer | Belgium |
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| Year | 1930-1932 |
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| Engraver(s) | Alphonse Michaux |
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| Obverse description | The central hole is surrounded by the royal monogram of King Albert I. A circular legend in French encircles the design, reading ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE (Kingdom of Belgium), with a five-pointed star serving as a separator. The date appears in the lower field below the monogram. The lettering is rendered in upright Latin characters in a clean, modernist style typical of early twentieth-century Belgian coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Belgium's interwar small coinage was struck in two legally distinct versions — French-legend and Dutch-legend — to satisfy the country's entrenched linguistic communities, a political compromise that has produced two parallel collecting series ever since. The star privy mark on this type denotes production at the Brussels mint under the oversight of the mint master then serving, a detail that separates it from otherwise identical dies lacking the mark.