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1000 Francs / 200 Belgas red print
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique / Nationale Bank van België |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red, the obverse carries a vignette of King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth in portrait at left, paired with a classical female figure bearing a cornucopia at right. The design is framed by guilloche borders and dense typographic inscriptions in both French and Dutch across the upper and lower registers. The date of issue appears at upper left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 200 Belgas denomination is the giveaway. The Belga — a unit of five francs introduced in 1926 to simplify foreign exchange arithmetic — was never popular with the public and had largely disappeared from everyday use by the late 1930s. Its continued presence on this note into 1944 is a bureaucratic holdover, not a reflection of active monetary practice.
This issue appeared as Belgium was emerging from German occupation, and the National Bank's Brussels printing works had operated under severely constrained conditions throughout the war. The red overprint distinguishes this from earlier issues in the series — a modification tied to post-liberation currency control measures aimed at limiting the spending power of occupation-era notes.