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| 表面の説明 | Bare-headed, bearded right-facing effigy of King Léopold II, rendered in high relief with considerable sculptural detail typical of the pattern coinage of the period. The king is depicted with his characteristic long beard and draped at the truncation. A curved legend arcs around the upper periphery of the field, identifying the sovereign as ruler of the Congo Free State. The engraver's name FERNAN DUBOIS appears along the lower periphery. The flat, matte-finished field is characteristic of a proof or essai striking. |
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| 表面の銘文 | LEOP II R D BELG SOUV DE L'ETAT INDEP DU CONGO FERNAN DUBOIS |
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The Congo Free State was Leopold II's personal property — not a Belgian colony, but a private domain administered under his direct ownership following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference. By 1896, the rubber extraction regime was already generating both enormous profit and the atrocities that would eventually force international intervention. A gold pattern of this weight was never adopted for circulation; the territory ran largely on forced labor quotas, not monetary infrastructure serving a local population.
Delmonte catalogues only a handful of survivors.