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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1870-1884 |
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| Engraver(s) | Albert Doms, Adolphe-François Pannemaker |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio print. Two seated male allegorical figures — one helmeted at left, one bearded at right — flank a large central oval guilloche panel bearing the denomination text. A female head in medallion format appears at top center, with laurel branch ornaments at the base completing the neoclassical composition. |
| Reverse lettering | MILLE FRANCS 1000 |
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The Banque Nationale de Belgique rarely commissioned outside printers once its own atelier was established in the early 1850s, and this note reflects that insularity — designed and engraved entirely in-house, with Pannemaker's work particularly worth noting. Adolphe-François Pannemaker was primarily known as a reproductive wood engraver of considerable standing in Paris and Brussels, a contributor to major illustrated publications of the period, and his presence on a banknote project was unusual for someone of his exhibition profile.
At 1000 Francs, this was the highest practical denomination in everyday Belgian commerce for much of the issue period, covering a span that bridged the Franco-Prussian War's economic aftershocks and Belgium's industrial boom years of the 1870s.