Catalog
1000 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1859 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in red ink with a simple rectangular guilloche border framing the central text. The denomination 'DUIZEND Guldens' is rendered in large decorative letterpress script at centre, with the bearer clause and Amsterdam issue date printed above and below respectively. Ruled columns with printed annotations appear along both vertical margins, and the note carries multiple handwritten signatures of the President, Director, and Secretary of the Nederlandsche Bank alongside manuscript endorsements. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. Ontvangen van Toonder de Somma van DUIZEND Guldens / om aan Toonder, op vertooning te restituëren. Amsterdam, den 6 January 1830. Nederlandsche-Bank President - Directeur - Secretaris I. Duizend Guldens. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands. Received from Bearer the Sum of One Thousand Guilders, to restitute to Bearer upon presentation. Amsterdam, the 6th January 1830. Bank of Netherlands. President - Director - Secretary. One Thousand Gulden.) |
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Enschedé had been supplying security printing to Dutch financial institutions since the early eighteenth century, but the Nederlandsche Bank's early Gulden series presented unusual challenges — the bank operated under successive French, then newly independent Dutch authority, and its note-issuing rights were repeatedly contested through the 1810s and 1820s. This 1000 Gulden denomination sat at the very top of the circulating range, making it effectively an instrument of wholesale trade and interbank settlement rather than retail commerce.
Survivorship at this denomination is extremely low. High-value notes returned to the bank far more reliably than small ones, and redemption rates for the 1000 Gulden were near-total.