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250 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1954-1958 |
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| Size | 155 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Olive green note with a central vignette of Saba island at centre and an allegorical female figure seated at left, holding a scroll and flag. The underprint carries guilloche patterning throughout, with the denomination and bank name rendered in intaglio. A diagonal red overprint reading 'SPECIMEN' crosses the face of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Olive green, with the crowned and supported coat of arms of the Netherlands Antilles at centre, surmounted by the inscription 'NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN'. The date 25 November 1954 appears below the arms alongside the numeral 250, and an order number is printed in red. A diagonal red 'SPECIMEN' overprint is applied across the reverse. |
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De Curaçaosche Bank, founded in 1828, served the entire Netherlands Antilles — and this 250 Gulden note was the highest denomination in circulation during a period when the island group was transitioning from a wartime economic boom, driven by Curaçao's oil refinery activity at the Shell Isla refinery, into a more normalized postwar economy. A 250 Gulden face value was serious money in mid-1950s Antilles commerce; these would have moved through merchant and institutional channels rather than retail trade.
Enschedé's involvement stretches back centuries, and their security printing for Dutch colonial and affiliated territories was routine — but no less technically precise for it. The series was replaced when the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen assumed issuing responsibilities in 1962.