Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
200 Gulden Auxiliary Note
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in black and yellow on cream paper, the note is framed by an elaborate guilloche border with ornamental corner rosettes and interlocking lacework running along all four edges. A large yellow guilloche underprint in an oval cloud formation occupies the centre, over which the denomination "TWEE HONDERD GULDEN" is printed in bold black letterpress. The issuer's name "De Nederlandsche Bank" appears above, with series designation, serial number, two manuscript signatures with their titles (Secretaris and President), a block of statutory text, and the Amsterdam issue date in a cartouche at the foot. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is unprinted and shows only the blind impression of the obverse design visible through the paper, along with a pattern of cancellation punch-holes distributed across the face of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
This note occupies an odd corner of Dutch monetary history. The 200 Gulden auxiliary series was issued by De Nederlandsche Bank under emergency wartime provisions — the denomination itself was unusual for peacetime retail use, sized for institutional transfers rather than everyday commerce. The print date of 30 April 1945 places production in the final days of German occupation, almost certainly at a moment when the bank's regular printing infrastructure was compromised or operating under extreme constraint.
Liberation came within days. Notes printed that late rarely saw meaningful circulation before the postwar currency reforms complicated their status entirely.