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500 Gulden - Ceylon Bank Van Nederlands
| Issuer | Bank Van Nederlands Ceylon (fantasy) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Gulden |
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| Reverse description | Upper left bears a crowned Dutch colonial emblem of Ceylon incorporating an elephant, coconut, and cinnamon trees (1602–1796). The central vignette shows an agricultural scene with a farmer plowing with two bulls and a woman carrying a basket of produce. At right, a portrait vignette of King Vimaladharmasuriya I of the Kingdom of Kandy; three small groups of Omron rings are distributed across the note. |
| Reverse lettering | BANK VAN NEDERLANDS 500 Ceylon FRANK MEDINA ONTWERP EN GRAFISCHE KUNST © 2016 500 VIJFHONDERD GULDEN A |
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This is a fantasy note — no such institution as the Bank Van Nederlands Ceylon ever existed, and the denomination has no monetary basis in either Dutch colonial Ceylon or any successor state. Issued in 2016 by a private designer rather than any central authority, it belongs to a genre of polymer novelty pieces produced primarily for collectors and prop use, with no legal tender status anywhere.
Franck Medina has produced several such fantasy issues; the holographic strip is a design choice borrowed from legitimate currency security practice, not a regulated feature.