Got a coin in the mail from my mail order dealer for review. Haven't bought any in a while, but this time a couple items caught my eye. One of them was this 1958 Belgium 50 Francs - Expo 58 - Brussels World's Fair commemorative.
Now because I stopped collecting for a while there, I obviously wasn't looking for it specifically. But that's how it goes sometimes. Unless you request something specific, they send me stuff in the genre I want to look at. Sometimes it goes back and sometimes it stays and goes into my collection.
This one did't go back.
It is in about AU-55 condition and contains .835 silver. The design caught my eye and I decided to keep it. I don't know much about the Brussels or their World's Fair honestly. Flew into Brussels once, that is about it. Might have to look into the Brussels Fair now that I own a piece of it.
That's one of the things I like about collecting coins. They drag you into history you weren't necessarily planning to learn. Some random commemorative coin shows up and suddenly you're reading about a 1958 exposition in Belgium. Wasn't on my radar yesterday. Now it is.
Not every coin in the collection has a deep story behind why I bought it. Sometimes the story comes after. You hold something in your hand that's almost 70 years old and you start wondering where it's been. Who owned it. What was happening in the world when it was minted.
This one earned its spot in the collection though, now off to learn about the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair.
If you have any further information about this coin you would like to add, like historical information I left out or want to correct any I may have gotten wrong, please drop it in the comments.
Thanks for reading,
Joe
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