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5 Gulden
| Issuer | Ministerie van Overzeese Rijksdelen |
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| Year | 1954 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on an uncoloured ground, the obverse carries a right-facing portrait vignette of Queen Juliana at right, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with intricate guilloche latticework to either side. At left, a bird-of-paradise vignette is set against a decorative geometric underprint, with the issuing authority signature and title 'DE MINISTER VAN OVERZEESE RIJKSDELEN' inscribed below. The denomination numeral '5' appears at upper left and upper right corners, with the title legend 'NEDERLANDS NIEUW-GUINEA' across the top and 'VIJF GULDEN' in bold letterpress along the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
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The Ministerie van Overzeese Rijksdelen — the Dutch Ministry of Overseas Territories — issued currency for the Netherlands Antilles and Suriname during the transitional years following the 1954 Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which restructured the colonial relationship and granted these territories autonomous status within the kingdom. This note belongs to that brief administrative window before dedicated central banking authorities took over full monetary management in the region.
Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, the Haarlem security printer with roots going back to 1703, produced work of consistently high intaglio quality. The watermark is the sole listed security feature — modest by later standards, but typical of what the ministry specified for these lower-denomination issues.