20 Francs - Albert I French text - Pattern

Albert I had been king for less than two years when this pattern was struck, and the French-text version of the 20 Francs was produced alongside a Flemish-text counterpart as Belgium navigated its constitutionally mandated bilingualism in coinage. Neither language variant entered regular circulation — the broader Latin Monetary Union 20 Franc type already in use made a new domestic issue redundant. The Delmonte reference for gold patterns of this period catalogues only a handful of confirmed specimens.