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1 Gulden Silver Voucher
| Issuer | Netherlands Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Gulden (1 NLG) |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie S - No WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL - KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN ZILVERBON Groot EEN GULDEN Wordt ter betaling aangenomen door De Nederlandsche Bank en aan alle Rijkskantoren. Inwisselbaar in zilver na aankondiging. Geregistreerd - 1 Februari 1920 De agent van het Ministerie van Financiën - De Minister van Financiën (Translation: Legal Tender - Kingdom of the Netherlands Silver Voucher One Gulden Accepted for payment by The Dutch Bank and all government offices. Redeemable in silver after announcement. Registered - February 1st 1920 The agent of the Ministry of Finance - The Minister of Finance) |
| Reverse description | A bold brown and white outer border encloses the reverse, with the denomination numeral repeated in each of the four corners. The central white panel carries a Dutch-language legal warning in letterpress text against the counterfeiting or falsification of silver vouchers. |
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The Netherlands Ministry of Finance issued these silver vouchers — zilverbons — as a direct response to wartime hoarding that stripped silver coinage from circulation during and after the First World War. They were not central bank obligations but Treasury instruments, payable in silver on demand, which gave them a different legal standing from conventional banknotes.
The 1920 date places this in the tail end of the series; earlier zilverbons had been introduced from 1914. By 1920 silver coinage was returning to circulation, and these notes were being gradually withdrawn — making later-dated examples somewhat less commonly encountered than the high-volume wartime printings.