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10 Francs Belges / Belgische Frank
| Issuer | Armée Belge / Belgisch Leger |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Size | 127 x 63 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse layout, rendered in the same olive-green and dark blue palette on cream paper, with a continuous guilloche border. Two flanking rosette vignettes each contain the numeral '10' in dark blue within a star-pattern frame, placed symmetrically left and right of the central text block. The Dutch-language legends 'BELGISCH LEGER', 'TIEN', and 'BELGISCHE FRANK' are arranged vertically in the centre, with signature lines below reading 'HET DIENSTHOOFD VAN DE F.D.L.' and 'EEN DIRECTEUR VAN DE F.D.L.' |
| Reverse lettering | BELGISCH LEGER TIEN BELGISCHE FRANK 10 HET DIENSTHOOFD VAN DE F.D.L. EEN DIRECTEUR VAN DE F.D.L. |
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Belgian military payment certificates issued in 1946 fall into an awkward administrative gap: the war was over, but the occupation-era franc had been replaced by the September 1944 liberation currency, and the army needed internal scrip that sat outside the civilian monetary system entirely. This series — issued by the Belgian armed forces rather than the Banque Nationale — was used among troops still deployed in Germany during the occupation period following the surrender.
P#M4 is among the scarcer denominations in the military franc series. Scrip of this type was never intended to survive: soldiers spent it, commands recalled it, and little made it back to Belgium in collectable condition.