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500 Gulden 'Hollandia'
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1930 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | AMSTERDAM 2 DECEMBER 1930 DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK BETTALT AAN TOONDER VIJF HONDERD GULDEN LION CACHET FEC (Translation: Amsterdam, December 2, 1930 Bank of Netherlands Pay to the Bearer Five Hundred Gulden) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-gray tones, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate central medallion of concentric guilloche rosettes surrounded by four interlocking lozenge-shaped cartouches filled with fine lathe-work. The margins are populated with stylized sea creatures — dolphins, serpentine fish, and mermaids at the lower corners — all rendered in the ornamental Art Nouveau manner characteristic of Lion Cachet's design vocabulary. The anti-counterfeiting statutory text from the Dutch Criminal Code appears in two columns at the right margin. |
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Lion Cachet was a Dutch artist associated with the Symbolist movement and deeply influenced by Javanese batik — an unusual choice to design high-denomination currency, but De Nederlandsche Bank made a deliberate turn toward fine art printing in the interwar period. His work for the bank produced some of the most visually distinctive Dutch notes of the twentieth century, and this 500 Gulden was among the most ambitious.
Enschedé in Haarlem had been printing for the Dutch state since the eighteenth century, giving them an unmatched institutional relationship with DNB. The 'Hollandia' series was eventually withdrawn as wartime pressures changed everything — German occupation from May 1940 forced the bank into a drastically different monetary situation, and large-denomination prewar notes were quickly rendered obsolete.