250 Gulden

De Curaçaosche Bank, founded in 1828, served the entire Netherlands Antilles — and this 250 Gulden note was the highest denomination in circulation during a period when the island group was transitioning from a wartime economic boom, driven by Curaçao's oil refinery activity at the Shell Isla refinery, into a more normalized postwar economy. A 250 Gulden face value was serious money in mid-1950s Antilles commerce; these would have moved through merchant and institutional channels rather than retail trade.

Enschedé's involvement stretches back centuries, and their security printing for Dutch colonial and affiliated territories was routine — but no less technically precise for it. The series was replaced when the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen assumed issuing responsibilities in 1962.