Catalog
80 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlandsche Bank |
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| Year | 1814-1835 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1817-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCHE BANK. Ontvangen van Toonder de Somma van Tachtig Guldens / om aan Toonder, op vertooning te restituëren. Amsterdam, den 21 February 1817. Nederlandsche-Bank President - Directeur - Secretaris Legge f 80. (Translation: Bank of Netherlands. Received from Bearer the Sum of Eighty Guilders, to be returned to Bearer upon presentation. Amsterdam, the 21st of February 1817. Bank of Netherlands. President - Director - Secretary 80) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, bearing multiple handwritten manuscript inscriptions, endorsements, and signatures in ink applied at various dates during the note's circulation life, consistent with bearer instrument practice of the early nineteenth century. |
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The 80 gulden denomination is an oddity — round-number denominations dominated early Dutch banking, and 80 fits neither the typical decimal ladder nor the older system of guilder multiples that preceded Napoleonic-era reforms. De Nederlandsche Bank itself had only been reconstituted in 1814 under Willem I after the French interregnum dissolved its predecessor, and the early note series reflects that institutional awkwardness: denominations were set pragmatically, not systematically.
Enschedé in Haarlem had been supplying the bank since its refounding and would hold that relationship for generations. The P#A5 designation signals how few of these survived — the "A" prefix in Pick typically marks issues so rare that catalog documentation remained incomplete long after the series was superseded.