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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Size | 110 × 88 mm |
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| Obverse description | Uniface issue printed in brown and black on cream paper. The note is framed by a decorative typographic border composed of musical notes, designed by J.M. Fleischman, enclosing the denomination and text in letterpress. Multiple signature varieties are known for this issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | CURAÇAO Goed voor f 10 Tien Gulden Betaalbaar op vertoon aan Toonder bij Goed voor TIEN GULDEN in Specie. Zegge f 10 Curaçao 1827. (Translation: Curaçao Good for f 10 Ten Gulden. Payable on presentation to bearer Good for Ten Gulden Say 10 Curaçao 1827.) |
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The Curaçao 10 Gulden of 1827 predates any formal central banking authority in the Dutch Caribbean — it was issued under colonial administration at a time when the island's economy ran largely on the entrepôt trade and the credit networks that sustained it. Notes of this period were hand-signed and individually numbered, with the paper itself almost certainly sourced from the Netherlands rather than produced locally.
Survival rates are extremely low. The tropical climate of the Antilles was brutal on paper currency, and redemption practices were inconsistent. Plomp's PLNA1.4 designation places this among the earliest documented issues for the territory.