10 Centimes - Léopold II Dutch text - Large date

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.