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100 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
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| Size | 205 × 130 mm |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour design printed entirely in intricate lathe-work guilloche patterns in orange and blue-green, radiating from a central vignette in which the bold numeral 100 is set within an ornate intaglio cartouche flanked by quatrefoil rosettes. An anti-counterfeiting legal warning in Dutch script appears above and below the central numeral, citing Article 237 of the Penal Code for the Colony of Curaçao. The overall composition is devoid of pictorial vignettes, relying wholly on the dense engine-turned guilloche network for its security effect. |
| Reverse lettering | Het in voorraad hebben of binnen de Kolonie invoeren van valsche Curaçaosche bankbiljetten, met het oogmerk om ze als echt en onverbascht uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste zeven jaren. (Wetb. v. Strafr. voor de Kolonie Curaçao art. 237.) 100 |
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De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the sole bank of issue for the Dutch Caribbean territories, and by the time this note was printed, Curaçao's economy was still largely dependent on the transit trade through Willemstad — the oil refinery boom wouldn't arrive until 1915–1918 with Shell's arrival, which likely drove demand for higher-denomination paper. Enschedé in Haarlem had been the Netherlands' dominant security printer for generations, handling Dutch colonial currency across multiple territories.
The Plomp PLNA8.5 reference places this among the rarest survivors of the series. High-denomination colonial notes from this period were rarely held by the general public and frequently retired through banking channels rather than worn out in trade.