Catalog
50 Gulden
| 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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| 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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De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the sole bank of issue for the Dutch Caribbean colonies, and by the time this note was produced, Haarlem's Enschedé firm had been printing Dutch colonial currency for well over a century. The timing of this issue — straddling 1918 to 1920 — places it squarely in the disruption of transatlantic shipping caused by the First World War, which complicated the movement of printed notes between the Netherlands and Curaçao and almost certainly affected distribution schedules.
Plomp PLNA8.4 is among the scarcer denominations from this short-lived series, with surviving examples relatively few given the low population and limited commercial volume of the island at that time.