10 Gulden

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.