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After the war, a piggy bank was issued with Lieftinck's head. This was for the so-called "Lieftinck's ten euro". This includes the following poem: Minister Lieftinck I will save. Keep everything in your head. But my life is going to be hell. Because of your terrifying injunction. Beware of your terrible fate. Because…. I'll smash your head. Older money boxes are all made with only a slot, so that something can be put in but not out again Lieftinck's "tenner" The name of the former Dutch Minister of Finance Piet Lieftinck (1902-1989) is still known to many people through the "tenner of Lieftinck". Shortly after the Second World War, all Dutch people received ten guilders during the great money purge that Lieftinck initiated. In the week in which all old banknotes and coins had to be handed in - and then exchanged for new money - everyone in Ned had to live on these ten guilders. In 1949, a manufacturer from Apeldoorn had money boxes made after Lieftinck's head.
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