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1 Gulden Silver Voucher
| Issuer | Netherlands Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Reference(s) | P#61 |
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| Obverse lettering | 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 October 1938 De agent van het Ministerie van Financiën De Minister van Financiën (Translation: Legal Payment - 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 - October 1st, 1938 The agent of the Ministry of Finance The Minister of Finance) |
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| Reverse lettering | Wettig betaalmiddel - Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Het namaken of vervalschen van zilverbons met het oogmerk om die als echt en onvervalscht uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren. (Translation: Legal Tender - Kingdom of the Netherlands. Counterfeiting or falsifying silver vouchers for the purpose of issuing it or have it issued as genuine and unadulterated, is punishable by up to nine years' imprisonment.) |
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The Zilverbons — silver vouchers — were introduced in the Netherlands as small-denomination paper substitutes for silver coinage, which the government was systematically withdrawing from circulation during the interwar period. The 1938 issue was among the last of the prewar series; within two years the German occupation would suspend the entire domestic monetary apparatus.
De Bussy, primarily a commercial and academic printer, handled this series rather than the more internationally connected security printers typically engaged for Dutch paper money. Their Amsterdam production is directly traceable in the typography.
Wartime hoarding hit the Zilverbons hard, and many surviving examples show heavy handling from pocket circulation during the occupation years.