Catalog
10 Gulden Coin Note
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance, Netherlands |
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| Year | 1900-1903 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown on white note with an elaborate guilloche border frame. At left, a standing allegorical female figure is accompanied by a lion; a portrait of Queen Wilhelmina appears at right. The central field carries the denomination and textual inscriptions, with the note's serial number and issue date printed in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on white note dominated by a dense guilloche border frame enclosing a plain central field. The large bold letterpress text TIEN GULDEN occupies the centre, with a serial number printed below. Denomination numerals 10 appear in guilloche cartouches at each of the four corners. |
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The Dutch coin notes (muntbiljetten) were issued by the Ministry of Finance rather than De Nederlandsche Bank, a distinction with real consequences: they were backed by coin reserves held directly by the state treasury, not by the central bank's assets. This 10 Gulden denomination circulated alongside silver coinage during a period when the Netherlands was firmly on the gold standard, the Muntwet of 1875 having anchored the guilder decades earlier.
Over twelve million printed across three years is a substantial run, yet surviving examples in decent order are harder to find than the numbers suggest — heavy commercial use took a predictable toll on paper of this weight and format.