80 Gulden

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prefix in Pick typically marks issues so rare that catalog documentation remained incomplete long after the series was superseded.