5 Gulden

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.