Netherlands 10 Guilder 1997 Kingfisher Specimen PMG67 EPQ

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Netherlands 10 Guilder 1997 Kingfisher Specimen PMG67 EPQ
Exceptional paper quality.
Specimen variant. Schaars. En in zeer nette kwaliteit. 

NVMH: 50-1
Plomp: PL48.s
Pick:99

Ten Guilders 1997 Kingfisher
The ten guilder kingfisher was put into circulation as the last Dutch banknote in 1997. Designed by Jaap Drupsteen, the ten guilder has many graphic modernist shapes in its design. There is also a blue/purple shape next to the watermark that shines when shone on with light, and the back features several shiny flakes. The term kingfisher comes from the kingfisher in the bill's watermark. The ten note is part of the last series of Dutch guilder bills, besides the kingfisher there are also the:
– Twenty-five guilders 1989 Robins;
– Hundred Guilders 1992 Stone Owl;
– One thousand guilders 1994 Kieviet.
By the way, the ten with the kingfisher is the only Dutch banknote that contains the abbreviation (ISO-CODE) of the Dutch guilder, namely 'NLG'. The ten with the kingfisher was finally withdrawn from circulation in 2002 with the introduction of the euro.

Het biljet is gekeurd in de kwaliteit PMG 67 EPQ, en is daarmee in een van de hoogste klassen van verzamelkwaliteit. Van dit type biljet zijn er dan ook maar 3 in deze kwaliteit gekeurd. Daarom is het biljet nu dan ook eenmalig beschikbaar voor de verzamelaar.

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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