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200 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1860-1918 |
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| Value | 200 Gulden (200 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on white paper with an ornate guilloche border enclosing denomination numerals "200" in each corner. A vignette of Minerva is positioned at top center, rendered in classical style above the central text panel bearing the issuer's name and bearer clause. The overall layout is symmetrical, with elaborately engraved corner ornaments framing the face value. |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 De Nederlandsche Bank betaalt TWEE HONDERD GULDEN aan toonder Amsterdam, 2 September 1918. 200 (Translation: Bank of Netherlands Pay Two Hundred Gulden to the Bearer Amsterdam, September 2, 1918.) |
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Pick 25 spans an unusually long issue window — nearly six decades — during which De Nederlandsche Bank continued hand-dating individual notes at the Amsterdam cashier's office rather than printing fixed dates into the plate. The April 1945 date here is among the last possible for this series: the Netherlands was liberated in May 1945, and the postwar monetary purge that followed, the Geldzuivering of September 1945, immediately froze and then invalidated large-denomination notes in an effort to neutralize wartime hoarding and German-acquired currency.
A 200 Gulden note dated within weeks of liberation almost certainly never passed through normal trade.