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500 Francs / 100 Belgas
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique / Nationale Bank van België |
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| Year | 1927-1936 |
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| Value | 500 Francs = 100 Belga (500 BEF) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE BRUXELLES, LE 14 SEPTEMBRE 1934. CINQ CENTS FRANC OU CENT BELGAS 500 FRANCS 100 BELGAS PAYABLE À VUE LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS. (Translation: National Bank of Belgium Brussels, September 14, 1934. Five Hundred Francs or One Hundred Belgas Payable on sight The law punishes the counterfeiter with hard labour.) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Belga was a trade-weighted unit introduced by Belgium in 1926, pegged at five francs, and used primarily in foreign exchange transactions rather than everyday commerce. Printing denominations in both Francs and Belgas was a practical concession to that dual-track monetary arrangement, not an aesthetic choice. The Belga designation was quietly abandoned after 1944 and never revived.
Albert Doms worked extensively for the National Bank's in-house printing works during this period, and his engraving on this series is among the finer intaglio work produced domestically in interwar Belgium — worth noting precisely because the Bank chose not to contract abroad, as many smaller issuers did.