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10 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Frans Hals facing right occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in dark red intaglio style on a pale ground. A guilloche underprint panel appears to the left, overlaid with two facsimile signatures above the issuer and denomination legends. Large numeral "10" anchors both left and lower-right corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | amsterdam 25 april 1968 secretaris president de nederlandsche bank TIEN GULDEN 10 |
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The 1968 10 Gulden was printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen in Haarlem, the firm that handled virtually all Dutch banknote production throughout the postwar period. At 85 × 41 mm it was among the smallest denominations in the series by physical size, a deliberate tiering that allowed cashiers and the public to distinguish notes by touch as much as sight.
The series it belongs to — the "Portrait series" designed by Ootje Oxenaar — would launch in 1966 with the 10 Gulden as its opening entry, making this note the first Dutch issue to break decisively from the conservative, engraving-heavy aesthetic that had defined Nederlandse Bank notes since the war. Oxenaar's flat, modernist graphic approach was deeply controversial at the time.