Nederland 10 gulden 1953 Hugo de Groot Specimen PMG64

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Nederland 10 gulden 1953 Hugo de Groot Specimen PMG64 
Choice Uncirculated
Pick: 85s
NVMH:48-1aa
Plomp:PL45.s.a1 Brown

The ten guilder bill featuring Hugo de Groot is part of Eppo Doeve's first legacy series that entered circulation in the early 1950s. The obverse shows an image of Hugo de Groot (a well-known Dutch philosopher) and the reverse shows scales, a globe and two ships, symbolizing Holland's overseas trade. A dove cluster is visible in the watermark and two variants of this type of bill exist, both with the signatures of DNB President Holtrop and DNB Secretary de Jong:
- 10 guilder 1953 vertical watermark;
– 10 gulden 1953 zonder verticaal watermerk.
In addition to the ten guilder bill, the following bills were also part of Eppo Doeve's series.
- 20 guilders Boerhave
- 25 guilder Huygens
- 100 guilders Erasmus
- 1000 guilders Rembrandt;
The ten guilder bill featuring Hugo de groot was withdrawn from circulation in 1978.

Specimen banknotes Netherlands
Specimen banknotes are real banknotes that have been invalidated in the printing process. There are often several reasons for this. Specimen banknotes were often sent as sample bills to various banks so that staff could see what the new bills looked like and what the security features were. Also, specimen bills were often used as a test bill so that the client could inform the printing company about the quality of the bill and whether the bill could then actually be printed in larger numbers.
Because the numbers of specimen notes associated with a design are often much smaller than the regular bills of the design, the different types of specimen bills are not included in every catalog. Except in the Plomp catalog, which describes virtually every specimen bill of the Netherlands. Because specimen bills were not intended for circulation, they were eventually sent back to the printer or destroyed, and only a small portion remains today.

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