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25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Maroon and tan intaglio print on white paper. At right, a vignette reproduces the portrait of a young girl in blue dress from the painting 'Meisje in het blauw' by Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, rendered in fine line engraving. The face value numeral '25' appears at lower left, with the bank title and denomination legends arranged across the note. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and red on white paper. The central design consists of an elaborate oval guilloche vignette in red and purple, enclosing a legal warning text in Dutch script within a cartouche, surrounded by multiple concentric bands of fine lathe-work. The denomination numeral '25' appears in red at lower right and upper left, with the place and date of issue at lower left and the printer's name at bottom centre. |
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This note belongs to the first series issued after Liberation — De Nederlandsche Bank resumed operations in the summer of 1945 under Allied authority, with Enschedé's Haarlem plant one of the few Dutch printing facilities that had survived the occupation without major disruption. The 1940–45 period had forced the Bank into a deeply compromised position, with occupation authorities compelling it to finance German requisitions through credit expansion, leaving the Netherlands with severe monetary overhang by war's end.
A sweeping currency reform followed in September 1945: all circulating notes were called in, stamped, and exchanged at controlled ratios to suppress the inflationary surplus. Whether a given example passed through that process — or escaped it — is often the most consequential fact about any 1945-dated Dutch note.