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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26701381, member: 10461&quot;]Nice big silver crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is <a href="https://en.numista.com/276" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/276" rel="nofollow">Numista-276</a> and <a href="https://en.numista.com/276" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/276" rel="nofollow">Krause-Mishler-24</a>.&nbsp; To determine value, we must first distinguish whether your coin is the Position A variety or the Position B variety, in regards to the edge lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I would grade the coin as Choice VF; right on the borderline with XF.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the historical background, you need only Google <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium" rel="nofollow">Leopold II</a>.&nbsp; I think the historical consensus is that he was pretty much a blackhearted villain who did <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State" rel="nofollow">nasty things</a> to the subjects in his African colony.</p><p><br /></p><p>His reputation is perhaps not as bad as that of Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot, but he was definitely one of history&#039;s &quot;bad boys&quot;.&nbsp; (If he had victimized <i>white</i> people, he might have gotten more condemnation.&nbsp; Sad but true.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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