I'm trying to earn my wings and get some info on this coin for my longtime dear friends. The history is very clear but a picture, photos, images, whatever showing the book value or even ebay asking prices, I cannot find anywhere. 1922 and 1920 coins images are common to find. But 1921 was a transition year and this makes me very suspicious as to why there ard no images. There are images of 1921 coins but not this one. Also it has Ces for Centimes while most others have Cen.????? Can anyone fill me in on why there are no pics of this coin. Yes I know it could have actually been minted in a previous or later year than 1921.
Now that I can answer. The "Ces" is short for centimes (French) while "Cen" is short for centiemen (Dutch). Also, the French version of the coin will say "Royaume de Belgique" - see your photo - while the Dutch version says "Koninkrijk Belgie". Christian
WOW, that's amazing! Thank you Chrisild. I have several questions if I may ask. The Dutch version, would that be associated with Luxembourgh which I know about. But Dutch, that wouldn't mean Holland would it? This I know nothing about. That is, I know that in 1921 Belgium and Luxembourgh were two countries whose monetary systems survived after the financial chaos caused by WWI. Later in 1926 they formed BLEU (Belgium Luxembourgh Ecomomic Union) which was finally solidified in 1932 or 1933, I think. I have not heard that anything about Luxembourgh being called Dutch. Next, does this mean that Belgium minted French and a Dutch version? I'm kinda slow on the uptake and dense too when it comes to understanding this history, which I think is very interesting when researching coins. Thanks an awful lot again for your info. zeke
No, as you wrote yourself, Luxembourg is a different country. (Well, actually there is a Belgian province with the same name, but let's leave that aside here. ) Belgium has two major regions and language communities - in Flanders they speak Dutch, in Wallonia they speak French. The Brussels region has a special (and difficult) status, and there is also a small German community, but Dutch and French are the two primary languages in Belgium. So a Belgian coin usually has either Dutch language text or French language text. Or both, but then there may still be two versions (Dutch-French and French-Dutch). Other options, especially for commemorative coins, are Latin and nowadays even English ... Christian
Just had a look at a Belgian coin site which has some more info. See http://www.muntslag.nunaar.be/index.htm and click on "Albert I" on the left. Then click on "your" 25 c coin. The page is in Dutch, but you can probably guess that "Jaartal" means year, "Taal" means language and "Slagaantal" means mintage. Also, "Frans" is French; "Vlaams" is Flemish, i.e. Dutch. If you move the cursor across the numbers (first column), images of the coins should pop up, but some don't work. (The site has not been updated for a while.) In the "Omschrijving" column, "1922 over 1921" means that a coin originally minted in 1921 was turned into a 1922 piece, thus an overstrike. Christian
Nice coin. I like it. I have a 25 centime-coin 1910 (king Albert I). I bought it a couple years ago for 4 or 5$.
I think yours is better than EF. Probably AU. You given me a start as to what this coin is numistmatically worth right now. I'd say my friend's is low EF and about $3 sounds right. Oh, back in 1921 my guess is that a franc was worth 25 cents U.S. If so then 25 centiemen is 6.5 cents U.S. Not much nowadays but back then it probably could buy a coffee and a doughnut. zeke
Yes, the prices are grows every year. I remember that in my childhood one bread stick deserved about 11 cents (in russian currency of course). But now one bread stick deserve about 48 cents
