1000 Gulden

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.