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New Member
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I have a 1950 Belgie coin I bought for $8 for the silver. It has rau in small letters and a small letter r on it,is it worth anything.
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Moderator
 United States
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I moved your thread to the world coin section  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Welcome to the forum. A pic might help.  Steve  |
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New Member
 United States
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Sorry, no pic what I read it supposed to be very rare
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Moderator
United States
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unfortunately, you did not tell the denomination or condition. So without pictures, we can't give a valid answer.
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New Member
United States
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50 f fine/extra fine all letters/ numbers are really clear. All details of the coin are still present.
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New Member
United States
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You can still see the muscles in the face/neck. Also, you can see the lex on the back and you can still see the eye in the dragon.
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Moderator
United States
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by your description, it sounds like 1950 50 Frank coin from Belgium KM# 136
12.5 grams, .3356 oz ASW, 30 mm
at current prices, its worth around $6.50 USD in silver
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New Member
United States
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It has belgie not belgium on it.
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United States
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Belgie is Belgium in Dutch. They also had coins with a name of Belgique which is French.
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Australia
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Belgium is rather unique in that, being a bilingual country, they simultaneously issued two separate series of coins, one in each language (French and Dutch/Flemish). There are, therefore, two different 1950 50 franc coins from Belgium. The one in Dutch (that says BELGIE) is common. NGC database page. The one in French (that says BELGIQUE) is extremely rare. NGC database page. Unfortunately, you have the common one. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Belgium
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There also are few 'bilingual' Belgian coins, with BELGIQUE : BELGIË on the reverse. The picture is the reverse of a less common 50 Francs coin, dated 1940.  They were issued between 1934 and 1947, during the reign of Leopold III. Yet, even then seperate varities existed with different language order, 'BELGIQUE : BELGIË' or 'BELGIË : BELGIQUE'. Rau was the name of the engraver, working at the national mint around that time. His 'modernist' style broke with the 'art nouveau' designs of the preceding period. The reverse of the coin shown also carries his initial 'R' above the double country indication. It is in full on the obverse:  |
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Germany
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Belgium is rather unique in that, being a bilingual country, they simultaneously issued two separate series of coins, one in each language (French and Dutch/Flemish). These days they even use all three languages (Dutch, French, German) ... if they use them on coins, that is. :) The collector coins usually have them, either "België - Belgique - Belgien" or Belgique - België - Belgien". For regular coins that would be a little much though, so it's usually the country code (BE) now. Christian |
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