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1 Gulden Silver Voucher
| Issuer | Netherlands Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with the numeral 1 at centre and repeated at all four corners within ornate guilloche borders. The heading KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN appears at the top, with ZILVERBON and the denomination Groot EEN GULDEN in bold central lettering. The note carries the registration date 1 Mei 1916, two manuscript signatures of the Agent of the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of Finance, and a lower text panel bearing the anti-counterfeiting warning, all above the legend WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse completely unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper stock with no design, text, or overprint of any kind. |
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The silver vouchers (zilverbons) were introduced by the Dutch Ministry of Finance in 1916 as a direct response to the hoarding and melting of silver coinage that accelerated once the First World War disrupted metal supplies across Europe. The Netherlands remained neutral, but wartime commodity pressures were inescapable, and silver guilder coins vanished from circulation almost immediately. These notes were the pragmatic stopgap.
With over twelve million printed across the two-year run, survivors are not rare — but the small format made them vulnerable to heavy wear, and many were used hard before silver coinage eventually returned.