Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Francs / 20 Belgas French on obverse
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
|---|---|
| Year | 1933-1943 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 179 × 108 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents an allegorical group of the Meuse and Scheldt rivers personified as classical figures accompanied by a child, rendered in finely detailed intaglio engraving. The Belgian coat of arms appears in the lower portion of the design, with the denomination inscription and issuing authority legend in Dutch distributed across the upper and lower margins. |
| Reverse lettering | NATIONALE BANK VAN BELGIE Honderd Frank Twintig Belgas M. POORTMAN SC. EMILE VLOORS (Translation: National Bank of Belgium One Hundred Francs Twenty Belgas) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The 107 series ran across a decade that split Belgium in two — issued before the German occupation of May 1940, it continued circulating throughout the war years under Nazi administration. The Banque Nationale was permitted to keep functioning under occupation, which meant notes already in circulation remained legal tender without reissue, giving a single design an unusually fractured history of use.
Minguet and Poortman were both accomplished intaglio engravers working regularly for the Banque Nationale during this period. Vloors, a Belgian painter and decorative artist, contributed designs to several Belgian issues of the interwar decades.