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2 1/2 Gulden Silver Voucher
| Issuer | Ministerie van Financiën (Ministry of Finance), Netherlands |
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| Year | 1922-1927 |
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| Value | 21/2 Gulden (2.5 NLG) |
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| Obverse lettering | Serie DD - No 084758 WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL - KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN ZILVERBON Groot TWEE EN EEN HALVE GULDEN Wordt ter betaling aangenomen door De Nederlandsche Bank en aan alle Rijkskantoren. Inwisselbaar in zilver na aankondiging. Geregistreerd - 1 December 1922 De agent van het Ministerie van Financiën - De Minister van Financiën (Translation: Legal Tender - Kingdom of the Netherlands Silver Voucher Two and a Half Gulden Accepted for payment by The Dutch Bank and all government offices. Redeemable in silver after announcement. Registered - December 1st, 1922 The agent of the Ministry of Finance - The Minister of Finance) |
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| Reverse lettering | KONINKRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN Het namaken of vervalschen van zilverbons met het oogmerk om die als echt en onvervalscht uit te geven of te doen uitgeven wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste negen jaren. WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL (Translation: Kingdom of the Netherlands Counterfeiting or falsifying silver vouchers for the purpose of issuing it or have it issued as genuine and unadulterated is punishable by up to nine years' imprisonment. Legal Tender) |
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The Dutch "Zilverbon" series — of which this is the highest denomination — was authorized under the Zilverbonnenwet of 1914 as a wartime emergency measure, allowing the government to suspend silver coinage circulation while retaining a nominal link to silver. That the series persisted into the mid-1920s reflects how reluctant the Ministry of Finance was to retire a convenient and cheap-to-issue instrument, long after the emergency that created it had passed.
Pick 17 is notably scarcer than the 1 Gulden and lower Zilverbons of the same period. The 2½ denomination saw far less day-to-day handling — most transactions at that value defaulted to coin — so surviving examples tend toward the extremes: either uncirculated remainders or heavily worn street notes.