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100 Gulden Erasmus
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown and dark green intaglio-printed note with a portrait vignette of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam at right, rendered in fine line engraving. The background incorporates symbolic motifs including an hourglass, a heart, and a church facade, set within a structured guilloche underprint. Printed inscriptions identify the issuing bank, denomination, and place and date of issue. |
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| Protection description | Erasmus portrait embedded in the paper |
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Doeve was primarily a political cartoonist — his regular work appeared in the weekly Elseviers Weekblad — which made his selection as designer for this note an unusual choice. The Nederlandsche Bank commissioned him directly, and his draftsmanship shows: the engravers at Enschedé had a genuinely strong design to work from, rather than the committee-softened artwork that often reached the press.
The 100 Gulden Erasmus circulated for over two decades before being withdrawn in 1974, long enough that heavily worn examples are common. Enschedé had printed Dutch banknotes since the nineteenth century, so the production was entirely domestic from design through delivery.