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1000 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-black intaglio print over orange and green guilloche underprint. Central vignette bears a portrait of Willem I van Oranje, known as 'de Zwijger' (William the Silent), Prince of Orange, rendered in a formal historical style. Denomination numeral '1000' appears at left and right, with the bank title and bearer clause inscribed across the note. |
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| Protection description | Willem I van Oranje (William the Silent) visible in the blank oval cartouche on the reverse when held to light. |
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This note belongs to the Liberation Issue — a series printed in London during the German occupation of the Netherlands and rushed into circulation after the Allied liberation in May 1945. De Nederlandsche Bank had arranged the printing abroad precisely because the occupying authorities had seized control of domestic currency production, and a shadow issue prepared outside Nazi reach was the only way to restore legitimate monetary authority once liberation came.
At 1000 gulden, denominations this large were almost immediately subject to the Dutch currency purge of September 1945, when all pre-reform notes required registration and revalidation. Most high-value examples were surrendered or frozen rather than freely spent.