The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has for the first time selected the Central Bank of Curacao and Sint Maarten to receive its annual prestigious “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2025. With almost 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2025, only 17 wereRead More…

B105 (PNL): 200 gulden (guilders) (US$112) Purple. Front: Dutch text; giant tun shell in blue-to-green OVI; Hippocampus reidi (longsnout seahorse). Back (vertical): Dutch text; Queen Emma Bridge. Purple windowed security thread with waves. Watermark: Compass rose and electrotype XCG. Printer: (Crane Currency). 147 x 66 mm. Paper. a. 31 maartRead More…

B104 (PNL): 100 gulden (guilders) (US$56) Red. Front: Dutch text; common music volute conch in blue-to-green OVI; spotlight parrot fish. Back (vertical): Dutch text; Courthouse of Sint Maarten. Red windowed security thread with waves. Watermark: Compass rose and electrotype XCG. Printer: (Crane Currency). 147 x 66 mm. Paper. a. 31Read More…

B102 (PNL): 20 gulden (guilders) (US$11) Blue. Front: Dutch text; yellow cowry in blue-to-green OVI; two Aetobatus narinari (spotted eagle ray). Back (vertical): Dutch text; Simpson Bay Lagoon. Blue windowed security thread with waves. Watermark: Compass rose and electrotype XCG. Printer: (Crane Currency). 147 x 66 mm. Paper. a. 31Read More…

B101 (PNL): 10 gulden (guilders) (US$5.60) Yellow. Front: Dutch text; queen conch in blue-to-green OVI; Pomacanthus arcuatus (Gray angelfish). Back (vertical): Dutch text; lighthouse on Klein Curacao. Yellow windowed security thread with waves. Watermark: Compass rose and electrotype XCG. Printer: (Crane Currency). 147 x 66 mm. Paper. a. 31 maartRead More…

B103 (PNL): 50 gulden (guilders) (US$28) Green. Front: Dutch text; favored tellin shell in blue-to-green OVI; Chelonia mydas (green sea turtle). Back (vertical): Dutch text; Playa Kenepa Grandi Beach. Green windowed security thread with waves. Watermark: Compass rose and electrotype XCG. Printer: (Crane Currency). 147 x 66 mm. Paper. a.Read More…