50 Gulden 'Oyster Eater'

Leo Gestel designed this note in 1929, but he died in 1941 — the same year it entered circulation. De Nederlandsche Bank had been developing the series through the 1930s, and the 50 Gulden was printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, not in Amsterdam as the issuing address might suggest.

The note circulated under German occupation, which meant the Reichskommissariat exercised indirect control over Dutch monetary policy throughout its active life. Notes of this denomination were withdrawn in 1944 as part of wartime currency measures intended to restrict liquidity and curb the black market that had expanded dramatically across the occupied Netherlands.