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100 Gulden - Ceylon Bank Van Nederlands
| Issuer | Bank Van Nederlands Ceylon (fantasy issuer) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Gulden |
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| Obverse description | At left, a holographic strip alongside a portrait vignette of Dutch admiral Joris van Spilbergen; at center, an engraved vignette of Batticaloa Fort as drawn in Baldaeus; at right, a standing Dutch soldier in feathered hat holding a halberd in his left hand. |
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| Reverse description | Upper left, a crowned colonial emblem of Dutch Ceylon with elephant, coconut trees, and cinnamon; at center, a vignette of the goddess Dourga with eight arms astride a lion moving right and attacking a demon; at right, a Kandyan lady in jewels and traditional headdress, with three small groups of omron rings. |
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| Comments |
A fantasy note with no issuing authority behind it — "Bank Van Nederlands Ceylon" is a fiction, combining Dutch colonial nomenclature with a geography that never produced such an institution. These pieces occupy an awkward corner of the hobby: too well-made to ignore, too invented to catalog seriously. Franck Medina's polymer productions from this period were sold openly as novelty items, not as currency substitutes, which keeps them on the right side of counterfeiting law in most jurisdictions.
The holographic strip is a genuine security feature applied to a document that has nothing to secure.