5 Gulden

The Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828, making it one of the oldest banks of issue in the Caribbean — but it took another five decades before this first printed note series appeared. The long gap reflects persistent reliance on Dutch metropolitan currency and informal credit instruments in the colony's trade economy. P#1 is the opening entry in Dutch Caribbean paper money collecting, and the thirty-year issue window suggests plates were reused across multiple print runs rather than redesigned.

Enschedé in Haarlem had been printing securities since the early eighteenth century and was the obvious choice for Dutch colonial currency work. That relationship would continue well into the twentieth century.