| Description : At the session of the United Nations General Assembly held at
the Palais de Chaillot in Paris on the 10th of December 1948, Resolution 217 was adopted with the ‐ legally
non‐binding ‐ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its Article 1 reads: "All human beings are born free
and equal in dignity and rights". The coin designed by Luc Luycx is dedicated to this
resolution. A rectangle surrounded by curved lines, resembling a stylised book, bears a circle symbolising the circle of
the earth and the number "60". Below this, the occasion of issue "UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS" is written in four
lines. Above it is the year "2008". Below is in a semicircle the name of the issuing country "BELGIE ‐ BELGIQUE ‐
BELGIEN" in the three national languages Dutch, French and German, flanked on the left by the helmeted head of the Archangel
Michael the mint mark of the Royal Belgian mint Monnaie Royale de Belgique / Koninklijke Munt van België /
Königliche Belgische Münzprägeanstalt in Brussels and on the right by a scale the logo of mint master
Romain Coenen. |