10 cent of Leopold III, 1939
Details
What could it buy?
A 900-gram loaf cost 2.40 francs in May 1940: 24 of these coins. Since the 1936 strike an unskilled labourer earned at least 32 francs a day, or 320 of these coins.
Approximate, in the prices and wages of the time.
The story
10 cent from 1939, issued in Belgium under Leopold III. So worn that the inscriptions are illegible.
