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100 Francs / 20 Belgas Front in French
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique / Nationale Bank van België |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 100 Francs = 20 Belgas (100 BEF) |
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| Obverse lettering | Banque Nationale de Belgique 100 francs Cent francs 20 belgas Vingt belgas G. MINGUET SC. EMILE VLOORS |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note arrived with the Liberation. The Banque Nationale issued the 100 Francs / 20 Belgas series from 1929 onward, but the 1944 dating places this example at the precise moment Allied forces were moving through Belgium — a period when monetary continuity mattered as much as military advance. The retention of the "Belgas" unit alongside Francs is itself a curiosity: the Belgas was an interwar trade denomination, five to the Belga, introduced in 1926 and formally abolished shortly after the war.
Minguet's intaglio work on the obverse is among the finer Belgian engraving of the period.