What an odd item to find at a garage sale, if you don't mind me saying so. That particular character had a rather notorious history, as he's held responsible for 4-8 million deaths in Belgian Congo during his reign of economic exploitation of that colony. (While not about the medal per se, the book I linked to is an eye-opener to a tragedy I never knew).
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