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10 Euros - Albert II Django Reinhardt
| Issuer | National Bank of Belgium |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Value | 10 Euros |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a full-color applied depiction of the legendary Belgian jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt seated and playing an acoustic guitar, rendered in vibrant polychrome enamel. To the left of the central figure, a stylized sheet of musical notation evokes his celebrated compositions, while a microphone stand is visible to the right, alluding to his performance career. The legend DJANGO REINHARDT arcs prominently along the upper border in raised lettering. The birth and death years 1910 and 1953 are inscribed in two stacked lines within a recessed panel in the lower right of the field, commemorating the centenary of his birth. |
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Django Reinhardt died in 1953, and Belgium waited nearly six decades to put him on a coin — perhaps because his story resists easy commemoration. Born in a Romani caravan in Liberchies in 1910, he spent much of his career in France and is claimed as readily by jazz history as by any national identity. The Belgian state's decision to issue this centenary piece in 2010 acknowledged a figure who had, in life, operated largely outside institutional recognition of any kind.
A 1928 caravan fire destroyed two fingers on his fretting hand. The chord voicings he subsequently developed around that limitation became the technical foundation of an entirely new guitar idiom.