Patterns from Belgium

[chrisild]

Funny how, in the Courtois design, the king's right part follows the border.   Elström, well, just the head on one side (basically OK, they minted such coins later) but a sculpture on the other side that does not leave much room for the country name. Not in Dutch, and I wonder what the French version would have looked like ...

Christian

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Belgium, 20 centimes, 1860.  Pattern.

Image courtesy of the auction house Stack's Bowers.