Catalog
25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green on red-green underprint. At left, an allegorical female figure is seated, holding a scroll and flag, while the central vignette presents a view of Fort Kralendijk in Bonaire. The face value and issuing authority are rendered in Dutch across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Dark gray on light-red underprint. The crowned Coat of Arms of Curaçao occupies the central vignette, rendered in a restrained heraldic composition. The order number is printed in red, with the denomination and date inscribed in a spare typographic arrangement. |
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De Curaçaosche Bank was the sole note-issuing authority for the Netherlands Antilles throughout the war years, and 1943 was a period of acute logistical strain — the Netherlands itself was under German occupation, yet Enschedé in Haarlem somehow continued supplying currency to the Caribbean territories. How printed sheets reached Curaçao during active Atlantic submarine warfare remains a practical question the literature rarely addresses directly.
Pick 27 is not a common note. The 25 Gulden denomination saw limited demand relative to lower values, and wartime hoarding reduced surviving circulated examples considerably.