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20 Gulden Herman Boerhaave
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1955 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK TWINTIG GULDEN BOERHAAVE 20 AMSTERDAM 8 NOVEMBER 1955 20 (Translation: Bank of the Netherlands Twenty Gulden Boerhaave Amsterdam - November 8, 1955) |
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| Reverse lettering | Wetboek van strafrecht artikel 208. Hij die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten namaakt of vervalst, met het oogmerk om die muntspeciën of munt- of bankbiljetten als echt en onvervalst uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren. 20 J. F. DOEVE DEL JOH. ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN IMP (Translation: Criminal code article 208. He who counterfeits or falsifies coins or coin- or banknotes for the purpose of issuing or having those coins or coin- or banknotes issued as genuine and unadulterated is punishable by imprisonment of up to nine years. 20 J.F. Doeve Del Joh. Enschedé and Sons Imp) |
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Herman Boerhaave, the eighteenth-century Leiden physician whose influence on clinical medicine spread across Europe through his students rather than his publications, was an unusual choice for banknote portraiture — more scholar than statesman. The decision to honor him on this denomination reflects De Nederlandsche Bank's postwar effort to move away from allegorical figures toward historically grounded Dutch cultural identity.
Doeve was primarily known as a political cartoonist and illustrator, which made him an unconventional choice for Enschedé. His work on this series drew some criticism at the time for departing from the engraved formality expected of serious currency design.