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25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1862 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red letterpress on plain cream paper, the face of this early bearer note is dominated by a typographic layout presenting the full promise-to-pay text in Dutch, with the denomination VIJF-EN-TWINTIG Guldens rendered in large bold type as the central emphasis. A red guilloche border frames all four sides, with the denomination repeated in words along the left margin as a secondary typographic element. Handwritten manuscript signatures of the President, Director, and Secretary of De Nederlandsche Bank, together with a manuscript issue date, appear across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left entirely blank, the plain cream paper surface bearing no printed text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with early nineteenth-century Dutch banknote practice for this series. |
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De Nederlandsche Bank was founded in 1814 by royal decree of Willem I, and this 25 Gulden note belongs to the bank's earliest operational series — a period when the institution was still establishing credibility against a Dutch public that had watched assignats and French-imposed paper money collapse within living memory. Enschedé in Haarlem had been printing for the bank from the outset, a relationship of geographic and institutional convenience that would persist across the entire nineteenth century.
The nearly five-decade date range reflects slow, conservative reissue rather than a single long print run. Individual notes within the series can sometimes be dated by manuscript elements and cashier signatures.