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500 Francs / 100 Belgas
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 500 Francs (500 BEF) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE NATIONALE DE BELGIQUE CENT BELGAS 100 BELGAS 500 FRANCS CINQ CENTS FRANCS LA LOI PUNIT LE CONTREFACTEUR DES TRAVAUX FORCES LE TRESORIER LE GOUVERNEUR |
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Printed in New Malden by Bradbury Wilkinson during the German occupation of Belgium, this note was part of a wartime exile production run — the Banque Nationale's physical operations had been severely disrupted, and British-printed issues allowed the institution to maintain some continuity of monetary authority from outside occupied territory. The "belgas" unit, introduced in 1926 as a stabilization measure equal to five francs, was already being phased out by this point; its presence here is something of an anachronism, and it disappeared from Belgian currency within two years of liberation.