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50 Centimes - Albert I French text
| Issuer | Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
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| Year | 1921-1929 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A tall, stylized palm tree dominates the center of the field, its fronds spreading widely to either side. The denomination 50 C ES is displayed in large numerals and letters on either side of the palm trunk, with the date centered below the trunk. The legend CONGO BELGE curves along the lower periphery in Latin script. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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Belgian Congo's subsidiary coinage of the 1920s was administered under the Comité Spécial du Katanga framework, with currency policy dictated from Brussels rather than Leopoldville. The French-text issues were struck for distribution in predominantly Francophone administrative districts, with parallel Flemish-text versions — KM#23 — issued simultaneously to satisfy Belgium's domestic linguistic politics, a compromise that extended even into colonial monetary administration.
Copper-nickel was chosen specifically to resist tropical humidity, after earlier bronze issues corroded badly in equatorial conditions.