Catalog
300 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1859-1917 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on white paper, the obverse centres on a vignette of Minerva at the top, enclosed within an elaborate ornamented border with the denomination numeral 300 repeated in each corner. A central text block carries the issuing institution name and payment obligation in letterpress, with the place and date of issue inscribed below. Dates on recorded examples range from 1 October 1859 to 3 January 1921. |
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| Obverse lettering | 300 De Nederlandsche Bank betaalt DRIE HONDERD GULDEN aan toonder Amsterdam, 16 Januari 1917. 300 (Translation: Bank of Netherlands Pay Three Hundred Gulden to the Bearer Amsterdam, January 16, 1917.) |
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De Nederlandsche Bank's 300 Gulden denomination was never intended for ordinary commerce — at a face value exceeding a skilled laborer's annual wage for much of its circulation period, it functioned almost exclusively in interbank settlement and large mercantile transactions. The fifty-eight-year date span on P#26 reflects the bank's conservative practice of maintaining authorised note types across extraordinarily long periods rather than frequent redesign.
Surviving examples are rare in any condition; high-denomination notes of this type were typically returned to the bank and destroyed once redeemed, which was often quickly.