Catalog
5 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) |
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| Year | 1827 |
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| Value | 5 Gulden (5 ANG) |
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| Obverse lettering | CURAÇAO Goed voor f 5 Vijf Gulden Betaalbaar op vertoon aan Toonder bij Goed voor VIJF GULDEN in Specie. Zegge f 5 Curaçao 1827. (Translation: Curaçao Good for f 5 Five Gulden. Payable on presentation to bearer Good for Five Gulden Say 5 Curaçao 1827.) |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is plain and unprinted. The image shown is a mirror-through view of the obverse printing visible from the verso side, with text appearing in reverse through the thin paper stock. |
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The 1827 Curaçao 5 Gulden is among the earliest documented paper currency issues from the Dutch Caribbean. Curaçao at this point operated as a separate colonial entity under the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which had only recently been reconstituted after the Napoleonic occupation — the island itself had passed between Dutch, British, and French control several times in the preceding decades, leaving its monetary arrangements in chronic disarray.
Plomp's cataloguing of this note as PLNA1.3 places it within an exceptionally small group of surviving colonial Dutch Antillean issues predating the mid-nineteenth century banking reforms. Survivors in any condition are genuinely rare.