Catalog
25 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Obverse description | Uniface note printed in brown and black on cream paper. The outer border is composed of a repeated musical notation motif, designed by J.M. Fleischman, enclosing an inner rectangular frame with ornamental corner devices. The text body carries the denomination and bearer payment obligation in Dutch letterpress, with ruled lines above for manuscript completion of serial number and signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | CURAÇAO Goed voor f 25 Vijf en Twintig Gulden Betaalbaar op vertoon aan Toonder bij Goed voor VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN in Specie. Zegge f 25 Curaçao 1827. (Translation: Curaçao Good for f 25 Twenty Five Gulden. Payable on presentation to bearer Good for Twenty Five Gulden Say 25 Curaçao 1827.) |
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This 1827 note predates the formal establishment of the Netherlands Antilles by well over a century — Curaçao at this date operated under its own colonial financial arrangements, and paper currency circulated alongside Spanish colonial coinage that remained the practical medium of trade throughout the island. The gulden denomination was an administrative imposition on an economy that thought in reales and pesos.
Plomp's cataloging of this series reflects just how few specimens are documented. Early Curaçao paper is among the rarest Dutch colonial material in existence, with most issues having perished in the island's climate.