Catalog
100 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CURAÇAO Goed voor f 100 Honderd Gulden Betaalbaar op vertoon aan Toonder bij Goed voor HONDERD GULDEN in Specie. Zegge f 100 Curaçao 1827. (Translation: Curaçao Good for f 100 Hundred Gulden. Payable on presentation to bearer Good for Hundred Gulden in Specie. Say f 100 Curaçao 1827.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse shows the note printed in mirror image as seen through the paper, confirming the uniface construction. The decorative musical-notation border and all central text visible in reverse orientation are bleed-through impressions from the obverse; no independent reverse printing is present. |
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This note predates the formal establishment of the Netherlands Antilles by well over a century — Curaçao in 1827 was administered under the broader Colonial Government of the Dutch West Indies, and paper currency issued there occupied an awkward position between colonial necessity and metropolitan distrust of local scrip. The gulden denomination tied it nominally to the Dutch monetary system, but actual convertibility was another matter entirely.
Plomp's cataloguing of this as PLNA1.7 places it among the earliest documented paper issues for the island. Survivors are extraordinarily rare; the tropical climate was unkind to paper, and colonial redemption drives eliminated much of what circulation didn't destroy.