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50 Gulden
| Issuer | Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen (Bank of the Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 1980 |
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| Printer | Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands |
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| Reverse description | Red on multicolour underprint. The Crowned Arms of the Netherlands Antilles are positioned at centre right, surrounded by fine guilloche patterning. The serial and order number are printed in black, with the statutory anti-counterfeiting warning text in Dutch occupying the lower portion of the note. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Joh. Enschedé en Zonen had printed currency for the Netherlands Antilles across multiple series by this point, and their work for the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen consistently drew on the firm's long intaglio tradition. The 1980 series coincided with a period of constitutional renegotiation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands — Suriname had already left in 1975, and the remaining island territories were actively debating their own status, a process that would eventually produce separate arrangements for Aruba in 1986.
Pick 18 is the only denomination in this series carrying Enschedé's security watermark without additional thread reinforcement, a cost-related decision that distinguishes it from higher-denomination contemporaries.