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500 Gulden
| Uitgever | De Curaçaosche Bank |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1930 |
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| Waarde | 500 Gulden (500 ANG) |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Green intaglio on red-green guilloche underprint. At left, a classical allegorical female figure is seated holding a scroll and flag; at center, a vignette of the oil refinery in Curaçao occupies the main field. Issuing bank title and denomination appear in letterpress above and below the central vignette. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | CURAÇAO 1930 500 |
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| Opmerkingen |
De Curaçaosche Bank was established in 1828 as the sole bank of issue for the Dutch Caribbean territories, a monopoly it held without serious challenge for well over a century. The 500 Gulden was the highest denomination in the 1930 series — a substantial sum at a time when Curaçao's economy ran largely on Shell's oil refinery at Willemstad, which had opened in 1918 and transformed the island's financial scale almost overnight.
Enschedé in Haarlem had printed Dutch colonial currency for generations, and their intaglio work on high-denomination notes from this period is technically accomplished. Surviving examples at this denomination are genuinely rare; high-value notes in small colonial economies circulated among a narrow commercial class and were rarely saved.