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50 Euros - Albert II Justus Lipsius
| Issuer | Royal Belgian Mint |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | A relief map of the European Union occupies the left portion of the field, rendered in raised outline against a polished ground. Twelve five-pointed stars of the European flag arc around the upper periphery of the map. The denomination '50 EURO' is boldly inscribed in the right field, with the date '2006' below. The trilingual country names 'BELGIE', 'BELGIQUE', and 'BELGIEN' are arranged vertically along the right border, and the engraver's initials 'qp' appear near the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BELGIQUE BELGIE BELGIEN 50 EURO 2006 qp |
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Justus Lipsius, the sixteenth-century Flemish humanist and classical scholar, was among the first to produce a modern critical edition of Tacitus and is credited with founding Neostoicism as a coherent philosophical movement. His 1584 work De Constantia became one of the most widely reprinted Latin texts of the Counter-Reformation period. The University of Leuven, where he held his chair, remains closely tied to his intellectual reputation.
Belgium has issued gold commemoratives in this 6.22g/.999 format as part of a recurring cultural figures series — the low mintage typical of these pieces means they rarely appear in secondary markets outside specialist Belgian auctions.