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20 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 20 Gulden (20 NLG) |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and green bicolour note dominated by a central intaglio vignette of the Moerdijkbrug (Moerdijk railway bridge) spanning a wide waterway, set within a fine-line engraved frame. The denomination numeral "20" appears in guilloche cartouches at lower left and lower right, with the place and date of issue "AMSTERDAM 7 MEI 1945" at lower right. A statutory anti-counterfeiting warning in Dutch is printed in a panel at the foot of the note, with the printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 MOERDIJKBRUG AMSTERDAM 7 MEI 1945 Hij die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten namaakt of vervalst, met het oogmerk om die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten als echt en onvervalst uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren. Wetboek van strafrecht art. 208. (Translation: 20 Moerdijkbrug Amsterdam May 7, 1945 He who counterfeits or falsifies coins or coin- or banknotes for the purpose of issuing or having those coins or coin- or banknotes issued as genuine and unadulterated is punishable by imprisonment of up to nine years. Criminal code art. 208.) |
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This note was printed in London for use in the Netherlands during the final phase of liberation — the Netherlands remained largely under German occupation until May 1945, and pre-positioning currency was a logistical necessity for the Allied-backed restoration of civil administration. De La Rue produced several denominations for this purpose, with the plates prepared and struck well before they could physically reach Dutch territory.
The series is sometimes called the "bevrijdingsgulden" in collector circles, though that label is applied loosely across multiple liberation-era issues. Worth distinguishing from the contemporaneous London-exile issues of 1943, which served a different administrative function.