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10 Centimes - Léopold II
| Emittent | Congo Free State (1885-1908) |
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| Jahr | 1887-1894 |
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| Währung | Franc (1887-1960) |
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| Reversbeschreibung | The central field displays a large five-pointed star with finely engraved sunburst rays radiating from each point and a granulated surface within the star's body, all centred on the round hole. Seven small five-pointed stars are evenly distributed around the lower periphery of the inner field. The denomination '10' appears to the upper left and 'C.ES.' to the upper right of the central star. The date '1888' is inscribed along the lower margin between the inner beaded border and the milled edge, flanked by the mint director's initial 'L' to the left and the engraver's initial 'W' to the right. |
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| Rand | Reeded |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
The Congo Free State was not a country in any conventional sense — it was the private property of King Léopold II of Belgium, administered through a chartered shell that answered to no parliament. Revenue extraction, enforced through systematic mutilation and violence against the Congolese population, funded the Brussels monuments Léopold built to burnish his public image. These copper pieces circulated within that machinery, not as instruments of ordinary commerce but as tokens of an administered labor economy in which the population had no meaningful choice about participation.
International pressure, culminating in E.D. Morel's exposure campaign and the 1904 British consular report by Roger Casement, eventually forced annexation by the Belgian state in 1908, ending the Free State's coinage entirely.