Catalog
50 Gulden
| Issuer | De Curaçaosche Bank |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Size | 155 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio print on red-green guilloche underprint. At left, a seated allegorical female figure holds a scroll and flag; the center vignette presents a view of St. Martin. The issuing bank's name and denomination appear in letterpress across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | CURAÇAO 1930 50 |
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De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the central issuing authority for the Dutch Caribbean colonies, and by 1930 it remained the sole note-issuing institution for Curaçao and the other islands of the Netherlands Antilles group. Enschedé's involvement with Dutch colonial currency went back generations — the Haarlem firm had deep ties to the Dutch treasury and its overseas dependencies long before this series was produced.
The 50 Gulden denomination was the highest in regular circulation for this issuer, which kept face values deliberately conservative given the relatively small transactional economy of the island. Pick 18 is notably scarcer than the lower denominations of the same series.