Crown Currency Offers Rare Dutch and Dutch Colonial Notes Certified by PMG

More than 400 banknotes certified by Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) are being offered in an auction focused on rarities from the Netherlands and its former colonies. Bidding is already underway for the Crown Currency Live Auction 26 Banknotes & Coins sale on February 28, 2024.

Among the top lots is a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1926-38 1,000 Gulden graded PMG 65 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 362). This high-denomination note dates from a difficult time in Dutch history: the already-lackluster economy of the late 1920s gave way to the global Great Depression in the 1930s. PMG has graded 76 examples of Pick# 48, and this one is unsurpassed in the PMG Population Report.

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The auction also features notes from Dutch colonies, the largest of which was the Netherlands Indies, known today as Indonesia. One highlight is a Netherlands Indies 1968 200 Gulden Specimen graded PMG 65 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 81). The PMG Population Report includes 13 examples of Pick# 83s2, which were printed with a fictitious date of 1968, which ended up being well after Javasche Bank was nationalized by the newly independent Indonesian government in 1951 and renamed Bank Indonesia in 1953.

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Other PMG-certified banknotes in this auction include:

• a European Union/Netherlands 2002 500 Euro graded PMG 68 Superb Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 394)
• an Indonesia, Republik Indonesia 1948 600 Rupiah Proof graded PMG 30 Very Fine (lot 197)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1941-43 50 Gulden graded PMG 66 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 334)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1945 10 Gulden graded PMG 65 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 286)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1953 100 Gulden graded PMG 67 Superb Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 345)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1956 1,000 Gulden graded PMG 35 Choice Very Fine EPQ (lot 363)
• a Netherlands 1968 (1930) 500 Gulden Specimen graded PMG 55 About Uncirculated (lot 361)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1972 1,000 Gulden graded PMG 67 Superb Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 364)
• a Netherlands, Nederlandsche Bank 1994 (ND 1996) 1,000 Gulden graded PMG 66 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 366)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1913-21 25 Gulden graded PMG 20 Very Fine NET with a Radar Serial Number (lot 50)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1920-24 5 Gulden graded PMG 30 Very Fine (lot 6)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1921 40 Gulden graded PMG 20 Very Fine (lot 53)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1938-39 100 Gulden graded PMG 30 Very Fine (lot 82)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1939 5 Gulden graded PMG 66 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 29)
• a Netherlands Indies, Muntbiljet 1943 500 Gulden graded PMG 30 Very Fine EPQ (lot 84)
• a Netherlands Indies, Javasche Bank 1946 1,000 Gulden graded PMG 40 Extremely Fine (lot 86)
• a Suriname, Centrale Bank 2000 25,000 Gulden graded PMG 65 Gem Uncirculated EPQ (lot 449)