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200 Gulden Auxiliary Note
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 210 × 130 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 Serie NB De Nederlandsche Bank betaalt TWEE HONDERD GULDEN aan toonder AMSTERDAM Uitgifte 1 Augustus 1914 (Translation: Series NB Bank of Netherlands Pay Two Hundred Gulden to the Bearer Amsterdam, Issued August 1, 1914) |
| Reverse description | Uniface; the reverse is unprinted and shows only the blind impression of the obverse design visible through the paper, along with a pattern of cancellation punch-holes distributed across the face of the note. |
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This note occupies an odd corner of Dutch monetary history. The 200 Gulden auxiliary series was issued by De Nederlandsche Bank under emergency wartime provisions — the denomination itself was unusual for peacetime retail use, sized for institutional transfers rather than everyday commerce. The print date of 30 April 1945 places production in the final days of German occupation, almost certainly at a moment when the bank's regular printing infrastructure was compromised or operating under extreme constraint.
Liberation came within days. Notes printed that late rarely saw meaningful circulation before the postwar currency reforms complicated their status entirely.