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40 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 40 Gulden (40 NLG) |
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| Reverse description | Blue-green guilloche underprint composed of a dense repeating geometric tile pattern covering the entire surface. A central cartouche, framed by a fine ornamental border, carries the denomination "VEERTIG GULDEN" in large letters. Below the cartouche, a smaller text panel sets out the anti-counterfeiting warning citing Article 232 of the Dutch Criminal Code. |
| Reverse lettering | VEERTIG GULDEN Het in voorraad hebben of binnen het rijk, in Europa, invoeren van valsche Nederlandsche Bankbiljetten met het oogmerk om ze als echt uit te geven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste zeven jaren. (Wetb. van strafrecht, art. 232.) (Translation: Forty Gulden Having in stock or importing into the Empire, in Europe, false Dutch Banknotes with the intent of publishing them as real, is punishable with a prison sentence of seven years maximum (Crim. Code, art. 232.)) |
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Pick 30 was issued under the authority granted by the 1814 bank charter and remained part of De Nederlandsche Bank's portfolio for decades, but the April 1945 print date places this specific note in an extraordinary position: it was produced in the final week before Germany's surrender in the Netherlands, during a period when the Dutch economy had been gutted by the Hongerwinter and the banking system was operating under severe occupation constraints.
Notes printed this late were almost certainly never released into general circulation. The liberation came on 5 May 1945, and postwar currency reforms followed quickly enough that stocks of older Gulden notes were largely withdrawn and destroyed rather than distributed.