50 Francs Brussels World's Fair 1935, French text, Pattern

The 1935 Brussels World's Fair — officially the Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles — drew over 20 million visitors and was one of the last major international exhibitions held before the Second World War reshaped the continent. Belgium produced pattern coinage for the event in multiple metal variants and bilingual configurations, testing designs that were ultimately never released for circulation. The French-text version of this bronze pattern exists in the Mailliet reference system without a recorded number, which typically indicates pieces known only from a handful of institutional or private holdings at the time of cataloguing.