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500 Francs - Baudouin I 60th Birthday of King Baudouin, French text
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Belgium |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bare-headed right-facing portrait bust of King Baudouin I occupies the centre of the field, rendered in sharp relief against a lightly striated background. The portrait is framed by a stylised geometric Art Deco-influenced border composed of radiating trapezoidal and rectangular elements arranged symmetrically around the effigy. The engraver's signature 'ROGER DUTERME' appears in small lettering at the lower right of the portrait. The commemorative dates '1930 - 1990' are inscribed in bold numerals along the lower portion of the field, denoting the King's birth year and the anniversary year. |
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Issued to mark Baudouin's 60th birthday, this coin arrived at a peculiar moment in Belgian political history — just one year before the king's extraordinary constitutional crisis of 1990, when Baudouin formally abdicated for a single day rather than sign the country's abortion legislation into law, a maneuver without precedent in modern European monarchy. The French-text variant exists alongside a parallel Dutch-text issue, a routine accommodation to Belgium's linguistic divide that splits most commemorative output into separate catalogued pieces.