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10 Centimes - Léopold II Dutch text - Large date
| Issuer | Belgium |
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| Year | 1903-1906 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | At center, a central circular hole is surrounded by the royal cipher of King Leopold II. The legend KONINKRIJK BELGIË, rendered in Dutch, encircles the design, with two five-pointed stars serving as separators. The date appears below the central cipher, flanked by raised dots. The inscription and monogram are executed in a clean, incuse-bordered style characteristic of Belgian coinage of the period. |
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| Obverse lettering | KONINKRIJK BELGIË ★★ • 1904 • (Translation: Kingdom of Belgium) |
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Belgium maintained separate French- and Dutch-language coin series throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a bureaucratic reflection of the country's deepening linguistic divisions. The Dutch-text 10 centimes of this period were struck at the Brussels mint, identifiable by the angel head privy mark. The "large date" designation distinguishes this variety from a contemporaneous small date die — a difference meaningful enough to collectors that the two are catalogued separately, though the mintage split between them is not precisely documented.