Catalog
500 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1836 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on plain paper, the note bears the full text of a bearer obligation in letterpress, with the denomination value either handwritten or typeset depending on the issue type. Four distinct typographic variants were produced across the 1814–1836 period. The layout is text-based with no pictorial vignette, framed by a simple typographic border, with the issuing date, denomination, and bank title as the principal elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. Ontvangen van Toonder de Somma van VYJF HONDERD Guldens / om aan Toonder, op vertooning te restituëren. Amsterdam, den 23 Julij 1818. Nederlandsche-Bank President - Directeur - Secretaris II. Vijf Honderd Guldens. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands. Received from Bearer the Sum of Five Hundred Guilders, to be returned to Bearer upon presentation. Amsterdam, 23 July 1818. Bank of Netherlands. President - Director - Secretary. Five Hundred Gulden.) |
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The Nederlandsche Bank was chartered in 1814 under Willem I, and its earliest issues — including this 500 Gulden — were printed by Enschedé in Haarlem, a firm that had been producing securities and official documents since the early eighteenth century. At 500 Gulden, this was not a note that passed through ordinary hands; it circulated almost exclusively between merchants, notaries, and the bank itself.
Survival rate for this series is extremely low. The Dutch public of the 1810s and 1820s retained deep reservations about paper money, and high-denomination notes of this period were typically redeemed quickly rather than held.