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40 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1862 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. Ontvangen van Toonder de Somma van VEERTIG Guldens / om aan Toonder, op vertooning te restituëren. Amsterdam, den 29 Augustus 1835. Nederlandsche-Bank 1814. President - Directeur - Secretaris Legge f 40. VII. VEERTIG GULDENS. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands. Received from Bearer the Sum of Forty Guilders, to be restituted to Bearer upon presentation. Amsterdam, the 29th of August, 1835. Bank of Netherlands 1814. President - Director - Secretary 40) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and bears multiple handwritten annotations in ink, including what appears to be endorsement or transfer notations with a date of 11 January 1905, along with several cursive signatures. The note has been cancelled by punch-hole perforation across the face. |
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The Nederlandsche Bank was established by royal decree of Willem I in 1814, and this 40 Gulden note belongs to the bank's earliest circulating series — a denomination that has no equivalent in any later Dutch issue. The choice of 40 Gulden reflects a transitional monetary arithmetic, bridging older Dutch accounting conventions before the guilder system fully standardized around rounder values.
Enschedé in Haarlem has printed Dutch banknotes almost without interruption since the bank's founding. The nearly five-decade span of this type — 1814 to 1862 — suggests the design was reissued across multiple print runs with minimal alteration, a common cost-saving practice for low-circulation high-denomination paper.