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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Nationale Bank van België / Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1982-1992 |
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| Designer(s) | Obverse: Yvon Adam, Manfred Hürrig Reverse: Maurice Pasternak |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 NATIONALE BANK VAN BELGIE DIE NAMAKER WORDT MET DWANGARBEID GESTRAFT (ART. 173 VAN HET STRAFWETBOEKI) VIJFDUIZEND FRANK GUIDO GEZELLE 1830-1899 5000 H. DECUYPER SC. Y. ADAM - M. HÜRRIG INV (Translation: National Bank of Belgium The counterfeiter will be punished with forced labor (art. 173 of the criminal code). Five Thousand Francs) |
| Reverse description | Green and multicolour. A large intaglio dragonfly in flight dominates the upper centre, its wings rendered with fine line engraving against a radiating guilloche background; below, an intricately detailed skeletal leaf is shown in warm red and green tones. The denomination "5000" and the French legend "CINQ MILLE FRANCS" appear at left and right respectively, flanked by complex lathe-work patterns. |
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This high-denomination note circulated through a period when 5,000 francs still carried genuine purchasing weight — by the late 1980s, Belgian inflation had cooled considerably from the crisis years of the 1970s, so the note functioned as a practical large-transaction instrument rather than an inflationary stopgap. The decade-long print run spanning 1982 to 1992 reflects stable monetary conditions rather than emergency reissue.
Henri Decuyper's intaglio work on the obverse repays close inspection — the depth and line control in this series is among the finer examples of late 20th-century Belgian engraving. Decuyper was a career engraver at the Banque Nationale's own printing works in Brussels, and the quality differential between his obverse and the reverse is noticeable to a trained eye.