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25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | No 06249 Serie XVII- No 06249 DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK betaalt aan Toonder VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN Amsterdam, 1 Augustus 1914. De Secretaris De President UITGIFTE 1 Augustus 1914. (Translation: Bank of the Netherlands pays to the Bearer Twenty-Five Gulden. Amsterdam, 1 August 1914. The Secretary / The President. Issue 1 August 1914.) |
| Reverse description | Light green overall, the field covered entirely by a fine geometric guilloche underprint of repeating floral rosettes. At centre, the denomination "VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN" is set within a rectangular panel with a decorative frame. Below it, a smaller rectangular text panel carries the anti-counterfeiting statutory warning in Dutch, citing Article 232 of the Penal Code. |
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Pick 29 belongs to a series that De Nederlandsche Bank kept in continuous issue from 1914 through the occupation years — the same note type was still circulating when the Netherlands fell to Germany in May 1940. The Germans did not immediately withdraw it, and Dutch notes of this series remained legal tender under occupation, which complicates provenance for any dated example reaching into the early 1940s.
The printing date of 30 April 1945 places this specific impression at the very end: liberation of the Netherlands was underway that week, with Canadian forces entering Amsterdam on 5 May. Notes printed in those final days were caught between two monetary regimes and many were never formally released.