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10 Gulden 'Staalmeester'
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Value | 10 Gulden (10 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, violet-blue, and green, the obverse carries a vignette at right of the sampling official Volckert Jansz, drawn from Rembrandt's painting 'De Staalmeesters' ('The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild'). The design is framed by guilloche underprint patterns and panel borders typical of the period. Inscriptions identifying the issuing bank, denomination, and payment obligation appear across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | AMSTERDAM 7 FEBRUARI 1944 JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN 10 (Translation: Amsterdam 7 February 1944 Joh. Enschedé and Sons 10) |
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Printed under German occupation, this note was produced by Enschedé in Haarlem while the Netherlands remained under Nazi administrative control — a fact that gave postwar authorities considerable pause about the entire wartime series. De Nederlandsche Bank continued operating throughout the occupation, issuing currency through channels the occupying administration could monitor and, where useful, exploit.
The "Staalmeester" nickname derives from the Rembrandt painting whose composition influenced the engraved group portrait — a piece of popular shorthand that stuck in the trade long after formal catalog numbers took over.