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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1148417, member: 39&quot;]Nice coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Well, I am not a monarchist, nor would I want my country to be a kingdom or anything like that. But we should be fair - in Europe it is, even in the monarchies, not the king or prince etc. who makes the political decisions but the elected government. (Belgium is a little difficult these days as it has an elected federal parliament but, for about a year now, no government that is backed by a majority in parliament ...)</p><p><br /></p><p>In a previous post <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=122975&amp;p=966969&amp;viewfull=1#post966969" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=122975&amp;p=966969&amp;viewfull=1#post966969">http://www.cointalk.com/showthread.php?t=122975&amp;p=966969&amp;viewfull=1#post966969</a> Silberian Man showed us the (20 and) 50 centimes coin featuring a miner. When in 2006 a collector coin was issued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Bois du Cazier mine disaster in Marcinelle <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG/160px-2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG/160px-2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0b/2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG/160px-2006_Belgium_10_Euro_Catastrophe_Marcinelle_front_A.JPG</a> a very similar miner&#039;s head was depicted in the foreground.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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