50 euro cent BELGIUM (2009-2013)

in the coin centre head of King of Belgium - Albert II facing left; on his right the royal monogram, lower: BE (code of Belgium in ISO 3166-2 standard); below the head year of issue; at the edge a ring of twelve five-pointed stars - symbol of the European Union

right from the coin centre face value: 50, below in two lines: EURO / CENT; on the left a map of Europe; in the background of the map vertically six parallel lines ending on both sides with five-pointed stars (the reverse is common for all euro coins)

reeded

1 I 2009

still in circulation

Jan Alfons Keustermans, Luc Luycx (initials LL after 50 on the reverse)

De Koninklijke Munt van België (in Dutch) / La Monnaie Royale de Belgique (in French) (The Royal Belgian Mint), Brussels (mintmark after year of issue on the obverse in 2009 and before year of issue in 2010 and later, on the other side of the year of issue a privy mark of mint's chief Romain Coenen in 2009 or Serge Lesens in years 2010-2012, or Bernard Gillard from 2013)

2009	30 000 000	scale	+ 39 500 in boxed sets
2010	-	feather	+ 42 000 in boxed sets
2011	15 000 000	feather	+ 42 000 in boxed sets
2012	30 000 000	feather	+ 32 000 in boxed sets
2013	5 000 000	cat	+ 24 500 in boxed sets

 We are presenting below privy marks of The Royal Belgian Mint directors, which appear on Belgian coins of euro:

Romain Coenen	1988-2009		scale
Serge Lesens	2010-2012		feather
Bernard Gillard	from 2013		cat

The royal monogram of Albert II - King of the Belgians in years 1993-2013.


photo: Ssolbergj; licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0