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20 Centimes - Léopold II

Uitgever Congo Free State (1885-1908)
Jaar 1906-1908
Type Standard circulation coin
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Aanvullende informatie

The Congo Free State was not a colony in any conventional administrative sense — it was the personal property of Léopold II, registered to him privately at the 1885 Berlin Conference while the Belgian state itself had no formal role. Coins issued under this authority were therefore instruments of a private commercial enterprise, the proceeds of which funded an extraction regime in rubber and ivory that the Red Cross and foreign journalists were already documenting as catastrophic by the time this issue was struck.

Production of this type ran only through 1908, the year Belgian parliament forcibly annexed the territory following sustained international pressure, ending Léopold's personal sovereignty over the region.