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50 ECU - Albert II Human Rights
| Issuer | National Bank of Belgium |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The left half of the field features the large numeral '50' overlaid with the torch emblem of the United Nations Human Rights symbol, surrounded by a partial ring of twelve stars along the outer border. The right half bears a multilingual inscription recalling the universal nature of human rights, rendered in several scripts including Latin, Arabic, and others. In the lower portion of the field, a stylized group of diverse human figures is depicted in low relief, symbolizing the universality of human rights across peoples and cultures. |
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| Mintage | 1998 - Proof - 1,137 |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in the conventional sense; it existed as a basket currency, a weighted average of member-state currencies used primarily for accounting within the European Monetary System. Belgium was unusual in issuing collector ECU coins with face values that had no transactional reality. This piece arrived just one year before the ECU was formally replaced by the euro at a fixed rate of 1:1 in January 1999, making the entire Belgian ECU coin program essentially commemorative from its inception.
The Human Rights theme ties to the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948.