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1 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1892 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden (1 ANG) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on yellow underprint. The note is hand-signed by C. de Haseth Evertsen (Merchant) and carries a manuscript serial number within the range 0001–5000. Text inscriptions in Dutch identify the issuing bank and denomination, with the obligation payable on demand to the bearer at the bank's offices in Curaçao. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface reverse, left entirely blank by design, bearing multiple manuscript handwritten signatures in ink applied after printing. The aged paper surface shows fold lines consistent with circulation use. |
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The Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828, making it one of the oldest surviving colonial banking institutions in the Western Hemisphere. By 1892, it remained the sole note-issuing authority for the Dutch Antilles, operating under close oversight from the Netherlands. This 1 Gulden represents the lower end of its circulating paper — small denominations saw hard daily use in a port economy where trade moved fast and coinage was perpetually short.
Hamilton Bank Note Company of New York handled the printing, a firm that worked extensively for Caribbean and Latin American clients during this period. Surviving examples in any respectable condition are uncommon precisely because notes of this face value rarely left active circulation.