25 — 25 Guilder
The artwork
Front: No portrait at all — a break with Dutch tradition. Instead a purely abstract composition in salmon, red and turquoise: fanned bands, dot screens and honeycomb patterns behind a huge outlined 25. Circular motifs at upper left and lower right carry a crocus and a tulip, each labelled. "ROODBORSTJE" runs vertically at centre. Amsterdam 5 April 1989, signed by the President and the Secretaris, with the warning that forgers will be punished.
Back: The same abstract vocabulary, looser: overlapping red, mint and pale blue planes, arcs of fine line-work and fields of raised dots. A curved text panel lists the note's authenticity features, beginning with the robin in the watermark. Two more crocus and tulip roundels, a barcode with the serial 2280046798, and along the edges the credits of designer J.T.G. Drupsteen and printer Joh. Enschedé en Zonen.
In circulation
Dated 5 April 1989 and issued from that year, this was the last Dutch 25-gulden note. It circulated through the 1990s until guilder notes lost legal tender status on 28 January 2002 with the arrival of euro cash; there is no euro equivalent of the 25 denomination.
Details
- CurrencyGuilder
- Denomination25 Guilder
- IssuerDe Nederlandsche Bank
- Series1989 "Roodborstje" (robin), dated Amsterdam 5 April 1989; designed by J.T.G. Drupsteen
- PrinterJoh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem
- WatermarkA robin, cited on the back as the first of the note's authenticity features
- SecurityRaised dot patterns for the blind and partially sighted; printed list of authenticity features
- SignaturePresident and Secretaris