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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bart, post: 314347, member: 5580&quot;]Congratulations with this find, Drusus! You got me really jealous!</p><p><br /></p><p>The angel head is the mint mark of the Brussels Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is (at least in my country) a coin with a high historical significance: the Brabantian Revolution lead to the Insurrection in 1790, leaving the Southern Netherlands for the first time in its history without a foreign ruler.</p><p>As there were many quarrels between the 2 fractions which lead the revolution (Catholic conservatives and liberals), the Austrians got a chance to recapture the country after some months of independence.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: the Insurrection of 1790 made only the Austrian Netherlands an independent country. This country didn&#039;t include the prince-bishopry of Liege, which was ruled by the Habsburgs&#039; great rivals: the Bavarian Wittelsbacher. Liege stayed independent from the rest of the Southern Netherlands until 1795, when it was captured by France and incorporated in what would become later Belgium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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