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| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1859-1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in two tones of green, the reverse is entirely covered by a dense lathe-work guilloche pattern. At the centre, an oval cartouche encloses the bold numeral 300 in letterpress, flanked symmetrically by two circular rosette guilloches, while a horizontal band of fine-print legal text runs across the upper portion of the central panel. |
| Reverse lettering | 300 |
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| Comments |
De Nederlandsche Bank's 300 Gulden denomination was never intended for ordinary commerce — at a face value exceeding a skilled laborer's annual wage for much of its circulation period, it functioned almost exclusively in interbank settlement and large mercantile transactions. The fifty-eight-year date span on P#26 reflects the bank's conservative practice of maintaining authorised note types across extraordinarily long periods rather than frequent redesign.
Surviving examples are rare in any condition; high-denomination notes of this type were typically returned to the bank and destroyed once redeemed, which was often quickly.