Iconic Belgian banknotes
In 2025, the National Bank of Belgium celebrated its 175th anniversary. As part of this anniversary, we look back at five iconic banknotes issued over the course of these 175 years. A beautiful design for collectors...
Banknotes
100 years ago Czesław Słania (1921 – 2005)
Many collectors are awaiting the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's greatest engravers this year: Czesław Słania. He spent the greater part of his career in Sweden. His work adorned more than 1000 stamps and banknotes from...
Controversial money – the Dutch guilder (4): Lieftinck's tenner
In the fourth and final installment of *Spraakmakend geld – de Nederlandse gulden*, attention is paid to the Lieftinck ten-guilder note, which is featured on the eighth stamp of this issue. Also, at the end of this article, some background information on...
Paper emergency guilder Leiden
On July 23, 2018, PostNL issued a sheet of stamps under the title: “Controversial Money – the Dutch Guilder”. One of these stamps features a Leiden guilder made of paper in 1574. This was likely the first paper coin of...
Controversial money – the Dutch guilder (3)
In the third edition of *Spraakmakend geld – de Nederlandse gulden*, attention is paid to the partially visible banknotes on the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th stamps. I am saving the 8th stamp, featuring an image of the Lieftinck ten-guilder note, for the concluding...
Aesthetic consultant and designer Ootje Oxenaar passed away
“Ootje Oxenaar (Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar, who died on June 13, 2017, at the age of 87) was one of the rare creatives who managed to hold his own in the corporate world. Designing goes hand in hand with great bureaucracy,” according to de Volkskrant of...
