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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Belgian heritage collection coins, 2.25mm thick Minted by: Mauquoy token company (mint mark below the date) Inscription on the rim: HERITAGE ON A COIN ★★★★WWW.NATIONALTOKEN.COM★★★★ first release date 2002 |
| Front Description : | This statue of a little boy in a somewhat compromising position has since several centuries been a major tourist attraction in Brussels. Nobody actually knows why the manneken is there. He is believed to be nothing more than a decoration on top of a fountain, where people in the Middle-Ages came to get fresh water. Already in the 15th century a fountain called 'manneken-pis' existed in the Stoofstraat/Rue de l'étuve. The official origin can be traced back to the 13th of August 1619 when the city ordered the sculptor Jerome Duquesnoy to make a new bronze statue of manneken-pis to replace an old and withered one. Manneken-pis is very often dressed in different costumes. At the moment he has a wardrobe of more than 600 costumes, which are all preserved in the King's House, or City Museum at the Grand-Place, the central market square of the city. |
| Diameter | 31.00 mm |
| Weight | 12.90 g |
| Material | Copper-Nickel-Zinc |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
