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25 Gulden
| Issuer | Bank van Curaçao |
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| Year | 1855 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress print in black on plain paper with an ornate typographic border enclosing the note face. The denomination f. 25,- appears at lower center, flanked by the full Dutch-language bearer clause text arranged in multiple lines. The layout is characteristic of mid-nineteenth century colonial bank issue typography, with varying signature combinations applied by hand. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries an extensive handwritten cancellation notice in Dutch, written in ink in a 19th-century cursive hand across the entire note face, overlying the ghosted printed border and guilloche underprint visible in raking light. The inscription records the formal withdrawal of this note type on 10 December 1879 and its replacement by notes of equal value, dated and signed at Willemstad, Curaçao, 16 December 1899 by the Administrator of Finance and Chairman of the Bank. |
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The Bank van Curaçao was established in 1828, making it one of the earliest chartered banks in the Dutch Caribbean territories. This 25 Gulden note dates from a period when Curaçao's commercial economy was still largely driven by the entrepôt trade — the island functioned as a regional clearing hub, and paper instruments of this denomination would have moved between merchants rather than through everyday retail exchange.
Surviving examples from the 1855 series are extremely rare. The bank itself was dissolved in 1883, and no systematic preservation effort accompanied the closure.