Watch List notes:

BELGIUM: AE plaque, ND (1935), 82mm x 60mm, The Benedictine Abbey of St André, Bruges, by E. Salu & Fils; bare head left with legend "Portrait of Albert" and "Former King of Belgium" in Chinese text over a religious dedication in French in facsimile of the King's handwriting, and view of the Abbey, in original box of issue, Unc. The plaque celebrates the ordination in 1935 of the former Chinese Diplomat Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871-1949) as a priest and taking the name Dom Pierre-Célestin. Tseng-Tsiang, twice Premier of the Republic of China, had been, earlier in his career, Minister to Belgium. Following World War I he was China's envoy to the League of Nations in Geneva, but in 1927, after the death of his wife, he became a postulant at the Abbey of St André.

Estimate: 200-300 USD