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2 Francs Army Issue
| Issuer | Belgian Army (Armée Belge / Belgisch Leger) |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Franc (1832-2001) |
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| Reverse description | Green guilloche border with ornamental corner rosettes frames a wavy-line underprint in green and purple. The inscription BELGISCH LEGER appears at top, with TWEE BELGISCHE FRANK in large purple lettering at centre, flanked by two circular purple rosette vignettes each bearing the numeral 2. Two handwritten signatures appear below the titles HET DIENSTHOOFD VAN DE F.D.L. and EEN DIRECTEUR VAN DE F.D.L. |
| Reverse lettering | BELGISCH LEGER TWEE BELGISCHE FRANK HET DIENSTHOOFD VAN DE F.D.L. EEN DIRECTEUR VAN DE F.D.L. |
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Belgian military scrip issued for use within the armed forces following liberation, this note circulated in a period when the Belgian franc itself was under severe strain — the October 1944 currency reform (the "Gutt Operation") had slashed the money supply and frozen accounts to suppress wartime inflation. Army scrip kept military spending insulated from the civilian monetary system, preventing soldiers' purchasing power from distorting the fragile postwar economy.
P#M1 is the only military issue catalogued for Belgium, and no successor series followed. The francs-militaires experiment was short-lived.