Katalog
| Emittent | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Jahr | 1870-1884 |
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| Währung | Franc (1832-2001) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | BANQUE NATIONALE 1000 1000 Bruxelles, le 1er Décember 1880. MILLE FRANCS PAYABLE À VUE LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS. H. HENDRICKX DEL. INV. PANNEMAKER-DOMS SC. (Translation: National Bank Brussels, December 1st., 1880. One Thousand Francs Payable on sight The law punishes the counterfeiter forced labor.) |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Blue intaglio print. Two seated male allegorical figures — one helmeted at left, one bearded at right — flank a large central oval guilloche panel bearing the denomination text. A female head in medallion format appears at top center, with laurel branch ornaments at the base completing the neoclassical composition. |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Banque Nationale de Belgique rarely commissioned outside printers once its own atelier was established in the early 1850s, and this note reflects that insularity — designed and engraved entirely in-house, with Pannemaker's work particularly worth noting. Adolphe-François Pannemaker was primarily known as a reproductive wood engraver of considerable standing in Paris and Brussels, a contributor to major illustrated publications of the period, and his presence on a banknote project was unusual for someone of his exhibition profile.
At 1000 Francs, this was the highest practical denomination in everyday Belgian commerce for much of the issue period, covering a span that bridged the Franco-Prussian War's economic aftershocks and Belgium's industrial boom years of the 1870s.