LEOPOLD II ROI DES BELGES
then ... strange
(Exposition publique) DES MACHINS ET ... (objets (
objects)? grues (
cranes)?)
in a circle:
DE L'ETAT BELGE
SECT DE MONS
INAUGURATION
DU...(dragage?
= Dredging of canals?)
1906?
"MACHIN" is literaly translated by widget, gizmo, thingy ... therefore rather pejorative.
it's undoubtly "DES MACHINES". When the engraver saw that it was missing the "S" of the plural, he overstamped the "S" on the "E" of MACHINE.
So an inauguration of an exhibition of machines of the belgian state ?
Where they sort of Earthmoving machines ?
SECT DE MONS might be "sections" of Mons.
In Belgium, a "section of commune" is a former civil township, now merged.
Mons gets 19 sections : Mons, Ghlin, Flénu, Jemappes, Maisières, Nimy, Havré, Harmignies, Harveng, Hyon, Mesvin, Nouvelles, Ciply, Saint-Symphorien, Villers-Saint-Ghislain, Spiennes, Cuesmes, Obourg, Saint-Denis