Belgian coins/medals

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Can somebody help me to identify and value these coins/medals ? Thanks!

The coins are decorated with windmils situated at my home region.

 

Welcome to Numista. These are new to Numista regarding Windmills. There are similar issues regarding Europes Rare Birds dated 1986 in the Numista Catalog. Look up Belgium -  1986 - Unspecified Currency - Local coins. Every one of yours would be a new addition to the Numista catalog as far as I can see and it looks like you have the entire set issued.

I'm afraid I've bad news for you. Although from a later year this set belongs to the “communal jetons” (gemeentepenningen). These started at the end of 1979/beginning of 1980. At first these were cheap (25 BEF) but when they saw their was a market for they got greedy and the issue price raised, 50 BEF, 100 BEF and like yours 150 BEF. So at a certain moment this market collapsed completely and nobody wants them anymore. Nowadays you can sometimes find them as kiloware on auctions. I'll see if I can find some of those back.

Here's a set of mine (actually two, one in bronze, one silver plated, I've made a picture of one side of each) comparable with yours:

Look at the stamp at the reverse, it's the same issuer as your set:

Issue price of your set was around 15 x 150 BEF = 2250 BEF (= 56.25 €)

Here you see a lot of 5 comparable sets, sold for 15 €: https://www.numisbids.com/sale/6347/lot/2938

And here's another lot: 358 pieces for 120 €, all in 2 x 2 flips in sheets: https://www.numisbids.com/sale/5945/lot/325

I also saw them sold in bulk and then it was even much less. Didn't find it back for now, but you've already seen this was a very bad investment.

Found one in bulk: 412 pieces, sold for 40 €: https://www.numisbids.com/sale/3447/lot/1256

Then you know, the market for Belgian City tokens is totally collapsed.

I thought one of yours was on the picture, almost in the middle but it is another windmill.

Found these while cleaning up. They’re not worth anything to me, but maybe they can make someone else happy.”

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