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10 Gulden 'Old Man'
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1933-1939 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK DNB - 10 TIEN GULDEN DE SECRETARIS - DE PRESIDENT 10 JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN IMP. LION CACHET FEC. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands DNB - 10 Ten Gulden The Secretary - The President 10 Joh. Enschedé and Sons Imp. Lion Cachet Fec.) |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT ART. 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. AMSTERDAM 18 OCTOBER 1938 (Translation: 10 Criminal Code Art. 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. Amsterdam October 18, 1938) |
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Lion Cachet was a Symbolist artist and designer with deep ties to Dutch colonial Indonesia — an unusual choice for a banknote commission, and it shows. The composition is unlike anything else in the Enschedé-printed Dutch series of the period, drawing on an aesthetic vocabulary far removed from the neoclassical conventions that dominated European note design in the 1930s.
The note circulated throughout the Depression years and into the late 1930s, a period when the Netherlands clung stubbornly to the gold standard longer than most European nations, finally abandoning it in September 1936 under severe pressure on the guilder.