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| Issuer | Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen |
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| Year | 1967 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green on multicolour underprint. The vignette at left presents the monument 'Steunend op eigen Kracht', while a landscape view of the mountains of Saba occupies the centre. The note bears the issuing authority title and denomination inscriptions in Dutch, with the printer's imprint at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | NEDERLANDSE ANTILLEN WILLEMSTAD - CURAÇAO 28 AUGUSTUS 1967 (Translation: Netherlands Antilles Willemstad - Curaçao 28 August 1967) |
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The 250 Gulden was the highest denomination issued by the Bank van de Nederlandse Antillen in this series, and in 1967 that placed it well above the daily wage of most Antillean workers — a note that moved through commercial and interbank channels rather than street-level trade. Enschedé's Haarlem workshop had printed Netherlands Antilles currency since the bank's establishment, a relationship that gave the series a consistent technical character unusual for a Caribbean territory of this size.
Pick 13 is genuinely scarce in circulation grades, which is expected for a high-denomination note but compounded here by the relatively small population of the islands keeping issue volumes low.