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25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1828-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on orange guilloche underprint. The bank title 'DE CURAÇAOSCHE BANK' is set in a large arched banner across the centre, above the bearer clause 'betaalt aan Toonder' and the bold denomination 'VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN'. The note is framed by an elaborate geometric border with diamond and chevron motifs, the numeral '25' repeated in each corner, and the denomination in full printed vertically along both side margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE CURAÇAOSCHE BANK betaalt aan Toonder VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN CURAÇAO 1918 CURAÇAOSCHE BANK (Translation: The Curaçao Bank pay to the Bearer Twenty Five Gulden Curaçao 1918 The Curaçao Bank) |
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De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the sole currency-issuing authority for the Dutch Caribbean territories, and this note dates from a narrow window during and immediately after the First World War — a period when transatlantic shipping disruptions made resupply of printed currency genuinely difficult. Enschedé in Haarlem had been the bank's printer of choice for decades, and the relationship held even when getting physical notes from the Netherlands to Curaçao required navigating U-boat risk.
The Plomp PLNA8.3 reference places this within a small, specialist collecting field. Dutch colonial Caribbean notes from this era surface infrequently.