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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1879-1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on green guilloche underprint. A central ribbon banner carries the issuer name "CURACAOSCHE BANK" in bold capitals above an elaborate oval guilloche vignette, within which the denomination "TIEN GULDEN" and the bearer payment text are inscribed. The note is enclosed by a multi-rule rectangular border with fine engine-turned ornamental corners, and denomination numerals "10" appear at each corner of the outer frame. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is unprinted. |
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The Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828, making it one of the oldest colonial banks in the Dutch Caribbean, and this note — active across nearly four decades — bridges the late colonial commercial period and the early twentieth century in Netherlands Antilles monetary history. Enschedé in Haarlem had been the Dutch state's printer of choice for currency and fiscal paper since the eighteenth century, so the commission was unsurprising, but the longevity of this single pick number across 39 years suggests reissue without redesign, a cost-saving approach common in low-volume Caribbean colonial circuits.
Surviving examples are rare, partly because Curaçao's small commercial economy kept total print runs modest.