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60 Gulden
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on light green underprint, with an elaborate guilloche border framing the entire note. The bank name and bearer clause are set in letterpress at centre, with the large denomination text "ZESTIG GULDEN" as the dominant typographic element. Issue date and "UITGIFTE" overprint appear in red vertically along both left and right margins, and two handwritten signatures below the text panel are attributed to De Secretaris and De President respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | ZESTIG GULDEN Het in voorraad hebben of binnen het rijk, in Europa, invoeren van valsche Nederlandsche Bankbiljetten met het oogmerk om ze als echt uit te geven, wordt gestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste zeven jaren (Wetb. van strafrecht, art. 232.) (Translation: Sixty Gulden Having in stock or importing into the Empire, in Europe, false Dutch Banknotes with the intent of passing them as genuine, is punishable with a prison sentence of at most seven years (Criminal Code, art. 232.)) |
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The 60 Gulden denomination is an oddity in Dutch banking history — it exists because De Nederlandsche Bank issued notes in multiples of 60 to correspond with the old Amsterdam unit of account, a relic of the city's mercantile past that had already outlived its practical purpose by the time paper currency became routine. The design dates to 1914, but P#31 was printed on 30 April 1945 — the final day of Adolf Hitler's life, and with Allied forces already in the Netherlands. Notes printed that late in the occupation period were produced by the Dutch bank under extreme duress, with liberation imminent and the wartime economy in collapse.
Specimens printed in the last weeks of April 1945 rarely entered normal circulation.