Belgium 1853 10 centimes

Stephen Album sale 37, lot 1788

This specimen was lot 1788 in Stephen Album sale 37 (Santa Rosa, CA, June 2020), where it sold for $202.30. The catalog description^[1] noted, "BELGIUM: Léopold I, 1831-1865, AE 10 centimes, 1853, Commemorative medallic issue - Marriage of the Duke of Brabant and the Archduchess Marie Henriette, with dies engraved by Leopold Wiener, NGC graded MS63 BR." This type was accompanied by a silver five francs for the dignitaries and gold hundred francs for the royalty. Tho consigned to the Unusual World Coins as a medal, enough are seen in circulated condition to suggest that the locals had no problem spending them.

Recorded mintage: 104,000.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: KM XM1.1.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 37, featuring the Gamal Amer Collection of Egyptian Coins and the Ahmed Sultan Collection of Ottoman Coins, Part II, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.

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