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5 Gulden
| Issuer | Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Printer | Joh. Enschedé en Zonen |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a fine guilloche border frame. At left, a classical female allegorical figure is seated in a vignette, with the numeral 5 in the lower left corner. The centre panel bears a landscape vignette of Willemstad harbour with sailing vessels, flanked by two signature lines labelled DE SECRETARIS and DE VOORZITTER. At right, a large dark numeral 5 is set within an ornate cartouche against a guilloche underprint, with the printer's imprint visible at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE CURACAOSCHE BANK BETAALT AAN TOONDER VIJF GULDEN DE SECRETARIS DE VOORZITTER |
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The Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the central issuing authority for the Dutch Caribbean territories, and by 1939 the island's economy was running on refinery money — Shell's Isla refinery had transformed Curaçao into one of the largest oil processing sites in the world, and the local currency needed to function under those industrial pressures. This note was printed in Haarlem by Enschedé, the same firm that had been producing Dutch colonial currency for well over a century.
P#22 is among the last issues before the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940 complicated supply and oversight of Caribbean currency operations.