Catalog
100 Gulden Auxiliary Note
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black and red, the note carries an elaborate guilloche border composed of interlocking geometric and floral rosette motifs running the full perimeter. A large red guilloche underprint occupies the central field, over which the bank title and denomination are printed in bold letterpress. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central text block, identified as Secretaris and President, with the place and date of issue set within a cartouche at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the show-through impression of the obverse design visible through the paper. The note is uniface. |
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The 100 Gulden Auxiliary Note (Pick 32) was issued by De Nederlandsche Bank under wartime emergency provisions in 1914, when the outbreak of the First World War triggered an immediate run on gold and silver that threatened to collapse the conventional note supply. These auxiliary issues were authorized under a special act passed within days of Dutch mobilization, giving the Bank emergency latitude to issue paper well beyond its normal statutory gold cover requirements.
The printing date of 30 April 1945 places this particular example at an extraordinary moment — the final day of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands, as liberation swept northward and German administration collapsed. Notes dated that specific day are rare in circulation terms.