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250 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1925-1929 |
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| Printer | Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands |
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| Obverse description | Purple note with a central vignette of a view of Curaçao, surrounded by fine guilloche work. The bank title and promise-to-pay legend appear across the note, with the date and place of issue at lower center. Two manuscript signatures of the Secretary (J.A.P. Thielen) and President (H. Schotborgh) appear below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Purple note with an elaborate guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The denomination numeral '250' appears in large figures flanking both sides of a central cartouche, within which a Dutch-language legal warning text against forgery is set within an ornate rosette frame of interlocking geometric lathe-work. |
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De Curacaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the sole bank of issue for the Dutch Caribbean territories, and by the 1920s it was operating against the backdrop of rapid economic change driven by Shell's oil refinery operations on the island — the Isla refinery opened in 1918 and fundamentally altered Curaçao's monetary demands. A 250 Gulden denomination speaks to the higher-value commercial transactions that followed.
Enschedé of Haarlem, printing continuously since 1703, handled the full series. The Thielen and Schotborgh signature combination places this note within a specific and relatively narrow window of the bank's management succession.