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Play money - Imitatie-bankbiljet - 5 Gulden
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| Obverse description | A school play-money imitation based on the 1966 Dutch five-gulden "Vondel" note, printed in a simplified letterpress style. To the right is a portrait vignette of a boy in left-facing profile, while the left side carries the manufacturer's device in place of an official coat of arms. The overall layout echoes the genuine De Nederlandsche Bank issue but is clearly distinguished by the "ALLEEN VOOR SCHOOLGEBRUIK" (for school use only) legend and the absence of security features. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left as plain white paper with no vignette, text, or underprint of any kind. |
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Imitatie-bankbiljetten — imitation banknotes produced as play money or novelty items — occupied a legally ambiguous space in the Netherlands for much of the twentieth century. Dutch law prohibited reproductions that could plausibly be mistaken for genuine currency, so manufacturers typically exaggerated proportions, altered text, or printed on distinctly thin stock to stay clear of counterfeiting statutes. Whether this example meets that threshold is a question the dimensions alone won't answer.
Collector interest is narrow but real, mostly from ephemera specialists rather than mainstream notaphilists.