Catalog
10 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1925-1929 |
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| Size | 190 × 82 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | DE CURAÇAOSCHE BANK BETAALT AAN TOONDER TIEN GULDEN Curaçao 1925 (Translation: The Curacao Bank pay to the Bearer Ten Gulden Curaçao 1925) |
| Reverse description | Brown and tan guilloche underprint covers the entire field in an intricate lathe-work pattern of concentric and interlocking geometric rosettes. The denomination numeral "10" appears in large figures to the left and right of a central oval medallion, within which a Dutch-language anti-counterfeiting warning text is set. Small floral rosette ornaments punctuate the design at regular intervals within the guilloche border. |
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De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828, making it one of the oldest colonial issuing institutions in the Western Hemisphere, but the Pick 9 series came during a period of considerable monetary awkwardness — the Netherlands Antilles gulden had no formal legal separation from the Dutch guilder until 1940, so these notes effectively circulated in a currency that existed in practice before it existed in law.
Enschedé's Haarlem press had been printing Dutch colonial paper since the eighteenth century; their intaglio work for Caribbean issues of this period is technically clean, though the relatively modest denomination meant heavy handling and accelerated wear. Thielen served as bank president while Schotborgh held the role of secretary.