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10 Gulden 'Old Man'

Issuer De Nederlandsche Bank
Year 1933-1939
Type Standard circulation banknote
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Protection type Watermark
Protection description Watermark visible in the paper
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Lion Cachet was a Symbolist artist and designer with deep ties to Dutch colonial Indonesia — an unusual choice for a banknote commission, and it shows. The composition is unlike anything else in the Enschedé-printed Dutch series of the period, drawing on an aesthetic vocabulary far removed from the neoclassical conventions that dominated European note design in the 1930s.

The note circulated throughout the Depression years and into the late 1930s, a period when the Netherlands clung stubbornly to the gold standard longer than most European nations, finally abandoning it in September 1936 under severe pressure on the guilder.

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