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| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio text on a blue-green guilloche underprint, with an elaborate geometric lathe-work border enclosing denomination numerals "50" at all four corners and vertical legends reading "VIJFTIG GULDEN" along both side margins. A central cartouche on a fine guilloche background carries the bank name "DE CURAÇAOSCHE BANK" in a curved banner above the bearer clause "betaalt aan Toonder" and the large denomination text "VIJFTIG GULDEN", with the place and date "CURAÇAO 1918" below. Two manuscript signatures appear across the lower central area. |
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| Obverse lettering | DE CURAÇAOSCHE BANK betaalt aan Toonder VIJFTIG GULDEN CURAÇAO 1918 CURAÇAOSCHE BANK (Translation: The Curaçao Bank pays to the Bearer Fifty Gulden Curaçao 1918 The Curaçao Bank) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green and orange-red on a dense lathe-work guilloche background with radiating line patterns filling the entire field. The centre carries the numeral "50" within a large oval guilloche vignette, flanked on each side by a symmetrical rosette medallion. Two blocks of Dutch-language anti-counterfeiting statutory text appear above and below the central vignette, citing the penal law for the Colony of Curaçao. |
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