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1000 Gulden Baruch d'Espinoza
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 AMSTERDAM / 30 MAART 1972 DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK DUIZEND GULDEN 1000 (Translation: 1000 Amsterdam / 30 March 1972 The Netherlands Bank One Thousand Gulden 1000) |
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| Reverse lettering | R.D.E. OXENAAR INV. © AUTEURSRECHT DE NEDERLANDSE BANK NV JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN IMP (Translation: R.D.E. Oxenaar inv. © Copyright De Nederlandsche Bank NV Joh. Enschedé en Zonen Imp.) |
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Ootje Oxenaar's commission for this note marked a deliberate break from the conservative engraved portraiture that had defined Dutch banknote design for generations. His approach was graphic and modernist — and the choice of Baruch de Spinoza as the face of the highest-denomination note was itself a pointed act of cultural rehabilitation. Spinoza had been excommunicated from Amsterdam's Jewish community in 1656 under a herem of unusual severity, and for centuries remained a controversial figure in Dutch public life.
By 1972, placing him on the 1000 Gulden was an unambiguous statement. The note circulated until the guilder's replacement by the euro in 2002.