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50 Centimes - Albert I French text
| Issuer | Belgian Congo (1908-1960) |
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| Year | 1921-1929 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | ALBERT ROI DES BELGES JUL. LAGAE |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Belgian Congo's subsidiary coinage of the 1920s was administered under the Comité Spécial du Katanga framework, with currency policy dictated from Brussels rather than Leopoldville. The French-text issues were struck for distribution in predominantly Francophone administrative districts, with parallel Flemish-text versions — KM#23 — issued simultaneously to satisfy Belgium's domestic linguistic politics, a compromise that extended even into colonial monetary administration.
Copper-nickel was chosen specifically to resist tropical humidity, after earlier bronze issues corroded badly in equatorial conditions.