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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Belgique |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 500 Francs (500 BEF) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-black, purple, and blue-green on multicolour underprint. A portrait vignette of Surrealist painter René Magritte (1898–1967) occupies the left portion of the note, with stylised birds among foliage at lower centre and a tree motif at right. Intaglio lettering and guilloche patterning run throughout the design, with the denomination numeral 500 repeated across the field. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-black, purple, and blue-green on multicolour underprint. The central vignette presents a group of six men in bowler hats — an iconic motif drawn from Magritte's Surrealist imagery — with a chair at left and additional figures at centre right. Guilloche underprint fills the background, with multilingual denomination text across the upper and lower margins in French, Dutch, and German. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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