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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1950-1958 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of King Albert I at left, rendered in fine engraving by Guillaume Minguet after a design by Louis Buisseret, set against a blue guilloche underprint. The large denomination numeral "1000" appears at upper right, with the bilingual bank title "BANQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE" above the central text "MILLE FRANCS" in bold letterpress. Inscriptions "PAYABLES A VUE" and the date appear below, flanked by the facsimile signatures of Le Trésorier and Le Gouverneur. |
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| Reverse description | Vignette of Pieter Geeraert, the hero of the Scheldt estuary, set within a dock scene engraved by Georges Régnier after Louis Buisseret's design. The composition is executed in intaglio with fine guilloche border work and the denomination repeated in the underprint. |
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| Signature(s) | Pirsoul & Frère Vincent & Frère Vincent & Ansiaux |
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