Katalog
| Emittent | Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
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| Jahr | 1910-1928 |
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| Referenz(en) | KM#17, LA#BCM-4, LA#BCM-5 |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Rand | Plain |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Belgian Congo coinage was administered not by the Belgian state but by the Colonial Ministry under a charter that kept the colony's finances legally separate from metropolitan Belgium — a holdover from the Congo Free State's status as Leopold II's private property until 1908. These pieces were struck at the Brussels mint for exclusive colonial circulation, part of a deliberate policy to prevent metropolitan Belgian coins from being used in the colony and to control monetary flows between the two economies.
The KM#17 type spans two distinct catalogue references (BCM-4 and BCM-5), reflecting a documented change in die workmanship partway through the series' run.