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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1922-1926 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is engraved in blue-grey intaglio and carries a central oval vignette with paired portrait busts of King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth in profile, set within an ornate foliate frame. To the right, an allegorical seated female figure with a cornucopia occupies the lower corner, while guilloche underprint fills the field; the serial number and date appear at centre-top and bottom. Two signature lines for the Trésorier and Gouverneur appear above the serial number. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible as a circular blank area on both obverse and reverse. |
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Belgium's post-WWI reconstruction period placed enormous strain on the Banque Nationale, and high-denomination notes like this 1000 Franc issue were central to financing public debt that had ballooned under German occupation. The franc itself was losing ground against gold throughout these years, a slide that would culminate in the Belga reform of 1926 — meaning the later dates in this issue's range effectively mark the final years of the unconverted franc system.
Paper quality on this series is notoriously uneven; notes issued toward 1925–1926 show more pronounced foxing than earlier printings, likely due to wartime disruptions to raw material supply chains that still hadn't fully normalized.