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5 Francs - Baudouin I French text
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Belgium |
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| Year | 1986-1993 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Royal Mint of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium (1983-2017) |
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Belgium ran parallel French- and Dutch-language coin series throughout Baudouin I's reign, a reflection of the country's deepening linguistic federalization rather than any minting necessity. The French-text and Dutch-text versions were struck in identical quantities and circulated together without distinction in daily use — the bilingual tension was political theater, not monetary policy.
The copper-aluminium-nickel alloy was chosen partly for its resistance to the alkaline environment of vending machines, which by the mid-1980s had become the primary driver of Belgian small-denomination coinage specifications.