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10 Centimes - Léopold III BELGIQUE-BELGIE
| Issuer | Belgium |
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| Year | 1938-1939 |
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| Engraver(s) | Oscar Jespers |
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| Obverse lettering | 1938 |
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| Reverse lettering | BELGIQUE-BELGIE 10c O.JESPERS (Translation: Belgium) |
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Belgium's bilingual coinage compromise — alternating BELGIQUE-BELGIE and BELGIE-BELGIQUE legends to satisfy Flemish and Walloon sensibilities — was already a decade old by the time these were struck. The 1938–39 window is historically tight: Léopold III had been navigating an increasingly untenable neutrality policy, and German occupation in May 1940 ended the series abruptly. Wartime substitution coinage followed within months, making these nickel-brass pieces the last of their type struck to prewar monetary standards.