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Letterpress-printed in black on plain paper, with a decorative border composed of repeated musical note patterns attributed to J.M. Fleischman. The text body, rendered in Dutch and French, states the promise to pay the bearer one gulden in specie, with the place and date of issue (Brussels, 1 October 1826) and the signature of the Company's Board of Directors below. Serial numbering is applied in black, and an orange overprint reading 'SURINAME' distinguishes this note for colonial circulation; the treasurer's manuscript signature of Mathieu appears in black. |
The Algemeene Nederlandsche Maatschappij — known in French as the Société Générale des Pays-Bas — was founded in 1822 under William I of the Netherlands as a state-backed financing vehicle, originally intended to manage government debt and stimulate industrial investment in the southern provinces. Its note-issuing function was a secondary instrument of that broader economic policy, not the bank's primary purpose.
Brussels was then still part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands; the Belgian Revolution that would sever the south from the north was still four years away. Notes from this 1826 series were denominated and circulated across a territory that ceased to exist as a political unit before many of them could have worn out.