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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jupke, post: 968026, member: 7294&quot;]Some background on the belgain holed coins. Actually at that time, Congo was still a colony of Belgium. It was for Congo that the Belgian Mint first experimented with holed coins (to be precise, in 1887). At that time all money for Congo was holed, except for the silver pieces. With a high probability, this was done to make it easy not to loose the coins (by putting them on string which you can hang on your neck).</p><p>Afterwards, they also used thesame technolgie for the construction of Belgian coins.</p><p>As a result of the hole, many of these coins were used as a stopper in constructions ;-)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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