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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Scholefield, post: 5351314, member: 116562&quot;]Yea - I&#039;ll give it a VF.</p><p>I hope you use your coin collection to learn a little history. Leopold II was a very bad man. From Wikipedia -</p><p>&quot;Leopold&#039;s administration of the Congo was characterised by <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">atrocities</a>, including torture and murder, resulting from notorious systematic brutality. In 1890, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Williams" rel="nofollow">George Washington Williams</a> coined the term &quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" rel="nofollow">crimes against humanity</a>&quot; to describe the practices of Leopold II of Belgium&#039;s administration of the Congo Free State.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> The hands of men, women, and children were amputated when the quota of rubber was not met and millions of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" rel="nofollow">Congolese</a> people died. Colonial accounts typically emphasized Leopold&#039;s modernizing changes in the Congo and not the genocide he facilitated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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