- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB05-0323 |
| Description: | 5 Francs (Dutch text) |
| Country or State: | Belgium |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Head of State/Ruler: | Baudouin of Belgium |
| Reign: | 1950-1993 |
| Currency: | Franc |
| Obverse: | Stylized portrait of Baudouin I, designer below |
| Obverse Legend: | J-P.L |
| Reverse: | Denomination in centre, legend in Dutch below. Year at bottom flanked by privy and mint mark |
| Reverse Legend: | 5F BELGIË 1986 |
| Edge: | Plain |
| Designer: | Jean-Paul Laenen |
| Privy Mark: | Scales (Romain Coenen, 1987-2009) |
| Mint Mark: | Head of Archangel Michael (Brussels) |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Composition: | Brass or Aluminium-Bronze |
| Diameter: | 24.00 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.72 mm |
| Weight: | 5.50 grams |
| Mintage: | 208,400,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 164 |
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Baudouin (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993), Dutch name Boudewijn, was King of the Belgians from 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the last Belgian king to be sovereign of the Congo. Baudouin was the elder son of King Leopold III (1901–1983) and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905–1935). Because he and his wife, Queen Fabiola, had no children, at Baudouin's death the crown passed to his younger brother, King Albert II. |