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500 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1836 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. Ontvangen van Toonder de Somma van VYJF HONDERD Guldens / om aan Toonder, op vertooning te restituëren. Amsterdam, den 23 Julij 1818. Nederlandsche-Bank President - Directeur - Secretaris II. Vijf Honderd Guldens. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands. Received from Bearer the Sum of Five Hundred Guilders, to be returned to Bearer upon presentation. Amsterdam, 23 July 1818. Bank of Netherlands. President - Director - Secretary. Five Hundred Gulden.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and carries multiple layers of manuscript annotations, handwritten endorsements, and ink signatures applied across the face over the note's circulation history. Cancellation marks and additional notations in various inks — including red — are visible, consistent with the administrative transfer and redemption practices of early nineteenth-century Dutch banking. |
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The Nederlandsche Bank was chartered in 1814 under Willem I, and its earliest issues — including this 500 Gulden — were printed by Enschedé in Haarlem, a firm that had been producing securities and official documents since the early eighteenth century. At 500 Gulden, this was not a note that passed through ordinary hands; it circulated almost exclusively between merchants, notaries, and the bank itself.
Survival rate for this series is extremely low. The Dutch public of the 1810s and 1820s retained deep reservations about paper money, and high-denomination notes of this period were typically redeemed quickly rather than held.