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Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 551

Belgian Congo, laudatory plaque to King Albert I and Queen Elizabeth, 1928, AE gilt rectangular with curved top edge 59 x 78 mm, by G. Devreese, conjoined draped busts of the King and Queen left, LE CERCLE AFRICAIN A LEURS MAJESTES ·1928 · rev. equestrian statue and locomotive with tender and coaches between palm trees, good extremely fine, attractive It is possible that this piece was also intended to commemorate the opening of the railway from the Lower Congo to Katanga in 1928

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