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50 Francs
| Issuer | Société Générale pour Favoriser l'Industrie Nationale |
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| Year | 1837 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out within a plain rectangular border and carries the issuer's name — SOCIETE GENERALE POUR FAVORISER L'INDUSTRIE NATIONALE — in a curved arc along the upper margin, below the heading ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE. A central oval cartouche encloses the numeral 50, flanked by two decorative vignettes bearing heraldic or allegorical figures, with the denomination rendered in large script lettering as Cinquante Francs across the lower half. Serial number and series letter appear at both upper corners and along the lower margin, with signature lines for Le Trésorier and Le Gouverneur at the foot of the note; the illustrated example bears ANNULLE cancellation stamps. |
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| Reverse lettering | ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE SOCIETE GENERALE POUR FAVORISER L'INDUSTRIE NATIONALE VUE il Sera Payé la SOMME de Cinquante Francs |
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The Société Générale pour Favoriser l'Industrie Nationale was founded in 1822 under William I of the Netherlands as a state-backed industrial and financial engine for the southern provinces — what would become Belgium after 1830. The revolution that created the Belgian state also upended the bank's original mandate, and by the mid-1830s it was operating in a drastically altered political environment, competing directly with the newly established Banque de Belgique.
Notes from this 1837 period sit at the height of that rivalry, before the Belgian government moved to consolidate and eventually restrict private note issuance. Survivorship is poor — not through dramatic destruction but through ordinary redemption and the indifference of a public that treated paper instruments as transactional rather than archival objects.