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10 Gulden Frans Hals
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1968 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue on violet and multicolour underprint. The central motif is a stylised abstract cylinder form, executed in Oxenaar's modernist graphic vocabulary. Anti-counterfeiting legislation in Dutch occupies the lower portion, accompanied by credits to the designer, printer, and a copyright notice. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 wetboek van strafrecht artikel 208: hij die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten namaakt of vervalst, met het oogmerk om die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten als echt en onvervalst uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren R.D.E.OXENAAR INV. © AUTEURSRECHT DE NEDERLANDSE BANK NV JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN IMP (Translation: Criminal code article 208: he who counterfeits or falsifies coins or coin- or banknotes for the purpose of issuing or having those coins or coin- or banknotes issued as genuine and unadulterated is punishable by imprisonment of up to nine years R.D.E. Oxenaar © Copyright Bank of the Netherlands Joh. Enschedé and Sons Imp) |
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Oxenaar's first commission for De Nederlandsche Bank, and the note that established his reputation as the most consequential banknote designer the Netherlands produced in the twentieth century. He broke decisively with the engraved portraiture tradition, using loose graphic line-work and a deliberately unmonumental treatment — a choice that drew considerable internal resistance before approval.
The series ran until 1990, an unusually long active life for a Dutch note of this period. Enschedé printed the entire run from their Haarlem facility, a few hundred metres from the Frans Hals Museum itself.