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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1910-1938 |
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| Currency | Franc (1832-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Elaborate intaglio-printed blue design with a large central vignette of a sailing ship at sea, framed by an ornate guilloche border. Allegorical female figures and putti occupy the four corners, with the denomination numeral "500" in circular cartouches at left and right. The issuer name and denomination legend appear in letterpress across the upper and central portions of the note, with signature lines and a penalty clause tablet below. |
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| Reverse description | Intaglio-printed blue design with a central allegorical vignette of a reclining male figure and a classical scene, flanked on the left by a standing female figure with a sword and on the right by a seated female figure. A row of heraldic shields surmounts the upper arch, crowned by a royal crown, with the denomination numerals "500" at upper left and right. The legend "NATIONALE BANK VAN BELGIE" appears on a tablet at the centre bottom. |
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This long-running series spans the First World War without a break in numbering — the same basic plate design, engraved by Albert Doms from Henri Hendrickx's work, carried the Banque Nationale through the German occupation, the postwar stabilization crisis, and well into the interwar period. Notes dated 1914–1918 were issued under conditions of occupation finance and are considerably scarcer than their interwar counterparts, though often turn up with heavy fold wear from active use during that period.
The Tschaggeny/de Lantsheere signature combination was retired by 1914; the gap before Stacquet and Hautain signed on reflects the wartime disruption to normal banking administration.