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60 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1861-1921 |
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| Value | 60 Gulden (60 NLG) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on lilac-brown underprint. The Dutch royal coat of arms, flanked by a caduceus and a rampant lion, occupies the top centre of the note. The face of the note is typeset in a formal register, carrying the bearer clause, denomination in words and figures, and the place and date of issue within a plain border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 60 De Nederlandsche Bank betaalt aan toonder ZESTIG GULDEN Amsterdam, 5 Februari 1912. 60 (Translation: The Bank of the Netherlands pays to the bearer Sixty Guilders Amsterdam, 5 February 1912.) |
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The 60 Gulden denomination is a peculiarity of Dutch banking practice — most European central banks settled on round decimal series, but De Nederlandsche Bank maintained 60 Gulden notes well into the twentieth century, a holdover from older accounting conventions rooted in the 60-stuiver guilder calculation system. By the time this series closed in 1921, the denomination had become genuinely anachronistic, and no successor note replaced it.
The sixty-year issuance window masked considerable variation: serial numbering, signature combinations, and paper stock changed multiple times across the run, and distinguishing early 1860s examples from later printings requires close attention to the cashier countersignatures.