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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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