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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bart, post: 378783, member: 5580&quot;]You have indeed a Belgian 1 frank Dutch version 1917 KM#73.1</p><p>I am afraid Krause is wrong in not mentioning the Dutch version of this coin in 1917. Krause lists the 1917 coin only in French version with a mintage of 8,540,000. This is wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>I quote the mintage figures as mentioned in &quot;De Belgische Frank - Encyclopedie van de Belgische circulatiemunten&quot; (The Belgian franc - encyclopedia of the Belgian circulation coins): 1917 Dutch version: 3,910,000; French version: 4,630,000. Krause combined those figures.</p><p>Still, the following note is important: During WW I, the Belgian government in exile in Le Havre ordered these coins struck at the privately owned &quot;The Mint&quot; in Birmingham. All of the coins of 1914,1917 and 1918 were struck in Birmingham, with the exception of 940,000 French version coins of 1914, which were struck in Brussels.</p><p>The coins of 1914 have circulated in both Belgian Congo and &quot;Free Belgium&quot;, a small territory round Ypres and Poperinghe.</p><p>The coins of 1917 were not put into circulation, because , due to inflation, their silver value was much higher than their nominal value. Most of these coins were remelted in 1920.</p><p><br /></p><p>This explaines the much higher values for the 1917 and 1918 coins.</p><p>The encyclopedia doesn&#039;t give any values.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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