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50 Gulden Stadtholder Willem II
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown intaglio print on multicolour underprint. Portrait vignette of Stadtholder Prince William II as a young man at right, rendered in a classical engraved style. Bank name and denomination inscriptions appear across the note, with guilloche patterning forming the decorative underprint. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note belongs to the Liberation series authorized immediately after the German occupation ended in May 1945, when De Nederlandsche Bank faced the twin problem of a currency flooded with wartime issues and collaborator-controlled paper. The Enschedé printing plant in Haarlem had operated under occupation restrictions for five years; resuming sovereign issue work there in 1945 carried obvious symbolic weight beyond the purely practical.
A monetary purge followed quickly — the Dutch government required compulsory registration and exchange of all banknotes in September 1945, effectively freezing hoarded occupation profits. Notes from this Liberation series were part of that reset.