Catalog
60 Gulden Spare Note
| Issuer | De Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NBA 60 NBA DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK betaalt aan Toonder ZESTIG GULDEN Amsterdam, 1 October 1914. De Secretaris De President DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. (Translation: De Nederlandsche Bank pays to Bearer Sixty Gulden Amsterdam, 1 October 1914. The Secretary The President De Nederlandsche Bank.) |
| Reverse description | Dark brown guilloche underprint on beige paper, with a dense ornamental border composed of repeated rosette and lace motifs. The central vignette consists of a large, intricately worked lathe-work rosette forming a symmetrical medallion, over which diagonal cancellation lines are printed in brown. The denomination 'ZESTIG GULDEN' is printed in two lines in rust-brown letterpress above and below the central medallion, flanked by two double star perforations; columns of small-type legal text warning against counterfeiting are set vertically at left and right margins. |
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The 60 Gulden denomination was never a regular part of Dutch paper money circulation — it emerged specifically as a bridging instrument at the outbreak of World War One, when De Nederlandsche Bank scrambled to supplement coin supplies that were vanishing into private hoarding almost overnight. The "spare note" designation (noodgulden in the broader colloquial usage of the period) reflects its emergency origin rather than any formal series classification.
Printed by De Bussy in Amsterdam on extremely short notice in August 1914, the issue was short-lived and redemptions were swift. Plomp records PL87 as genuinely scarce in any condition, a direct consequence of how quickly the notes were called back once the immediate crisis passed.