World Heritage - Spiennes

Obverse

Mining of Spiennes and piece of flint

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SPIENNES
2011

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
. WERELD ERFGOED .
WORLD HERITAGE . PATRIMOINE MONDIAL

Edge

Plain

Mint

Royal Mint of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium (983-2017)

Mark

Serge Lesens, Coins Commissioner, Royal Mint of Belgium (2009-2012)

Comments

Unesco extract:

Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes (Mons)

The Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes, covering over 100 ha, are the largest and oldest mining centers in Europe. They are also remarkable for the diversity of the technical solutions used for extraction, and for their direct link with a settlement of the same period.

Unesco World Heritage Site since 2000.

Medal included in BU 2011 boxed set

This is an automatic translation. The original text is:

Extrait Unesco :

Minières néolithiques de silex de Spiennes (Mons)

Les mines de silex du néolithique à Spiennes, qui couvrent plus de 100 ha, sont les centres d'extraction minière les plus vastes et les plus anciens d'Europe. Elles sont aussi remarquables par la diversité des solutions techniques mises en œuvre pour l'extraction et en raison de leur lien direct avec un peuplement de la même période.

Inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco depuis 2000.

Médaille inclue dans le coffret BU 2011

Present in sets

• Belgium 2011 BU coin set (The Spiennes Flint Mines)

See also

• UNESCO

• World Heritage - Brussels
• World Heritage - Brussels (colourised)
• World Heritage - Flemish Architecture
• World Heritage - Flemish Architecture (colourised)
• World Heritage (Canal du centre; colorized)
• World Heritage - Belforten
• World Heritage - Belforten (coloured)
• World Heritage - Cathedrale N.D. De Tournai (coloured)
• World Heritage - Cathedral of Tournai
• World Heritage - The historic centre of Bruges (coloured)
• World Heritage - The historic centre of Bruges
• Token - World Heritage (Spiennes; colorized)
• World Heritage - Plantin Moretus Museum, Antwerp (coloured)
• World Heritage - Plantin Moretus Museum, Antwerp
• World Heritage - 'Davy' Miner's Lam (coloured)
• World Heritage - Belgian Miner

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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2011

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