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40 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1861-1922 |
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| Value | 40 Gulden (40 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. The Dutch coat of arms, flanked by a caduceus and a rampant lion, is positioned at top center above the central text block. The note is printed in a typographic style with the denomination and bearer text arranged in a formal, unadorned layout characteristic of Dutch banknote design of the period, with dates ranging from 1 October 1861 to 11 December 1922. |
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| Obverse lettering | 40 De Nederlandsche Bank betaalt aan toonder VEERTIG GULDEN Amsterdam, 11 December 1922. 40 (Translation: Bank of Netherlands Pay to the Bearer Forty Gulden Amsterdam, December 11, 1922.) |
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De Nederlandsche Bank's 40 Gulden denomination — an unusual face value by any standard — had a long formal lifespan on paper, but the copies printed on 30 April 1945 exist in a peculiar historical limbo. That date is the day Adolf Hitler died in Berlin, and the Netherlands was still under German occupation; liberation of the western provinces came days later. Notes printed at that moment were either withheld from circulation or overtaken almost immediately by the post-liberation monetary purge, in which the Dutch government invalidated and recalled banknotes to neutralize occupation-era currency manipulation and black-market hoarding.
Survivors from this final print run are consequently rare.