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Belgium banknotes
Belgium paper money catalog and Belgian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Franc = 100 Centimes, till 1925
  • Belga = 5 Francs, 1925-45
  • Franc = 100 Centimes, 1945-2002
  • Euro = (40.34 Francs) = 100 Centimes, from 2002

• For earlier issues till 1830 see:
  • France, 1794-1815
  • Netherlands, 1815-1830
• From 2002 European Union banknotes are used, see:
  • European Union

• To purchase Belgian banknotes, please check our inventory :
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Pick #	Date
		Kingdom, from 1830
41-52	1850-62	10, 20, 50, 50, 50, 100, 100, 500, 500, 500, 1.000, 1.000 francs
53-57	1869-73	20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
58	1875-9	50 francs
59-60	1879-92	20, 50 francs
61-6	1892-1909	20, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
67-73	1905-25	20, 50, 100, 100, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
74-80	1914-9	5, 5, 20, 50, 100, 100, 1.000 francs
81-5	1914	1, 2, 20, 100, 1.000 francs
86-91	1915-8	1, 2, 5, 20, 100, 1.000 francs; German occupation
92-6	1920-7	1, 5, 20, 100, 1.000 francs
97-8	1926-40	5, 20 francs
99-105	1927-42	50, 50, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 10.000 francs
106-7	1933-47	50, 100 francs
108-12	1938-47	5, 20, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
113--5	1944	100, 100, 1.000 francs
116	1948	20 francs
121-5	1943	5, 10, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
126-8	1944-50	100, 500, 1.000 francs
129-31	1952-9	100, 500, 1.000 francs
132-3	1948-56	20, 50 francs
134-7	1961-77	100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs
138-9	1964-6	20, 50 francs
140-1	(1980)	100, 500 francs
142-6	(198-)	100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 francs
147-52	(199-)	100, 200, 500, 1.000, 2.000, 10.000 francs

		WW2; Belgium Army, occupation of Germany
M1-8	1946	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 francs