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1 Gulden
| Issuer | Government of Dutch New Guinea (Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea) |
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| Year | 1954 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green note with a portrait vignette of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands at right, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with a guilloche underprint. At left center, a bird of paradise vignette is set against an ornate scrollwork panel, with the denomination numeral '1' at upper left and upper right corners. The territorial title 'NEDERLANDS NIEUW-GUINEA' is inscribed at top, the denomination 'EEN GULDEN' appears in a horizontal band at lower center, and the date legend 'WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL 8 DECEMBER 1954' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection description | a bird of paradise visible in the paper when held to light |
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Dutch New Guinea remained under Netherlands administration after Indonesian independence, and its separate currency was a deliberate political assertion — The Hague maintaining that the territory's future was unresolved. This 1 Gulden note was issued under that arrangement, part of a series that would become obsolete when the Netherlands transferred administration to a UN temporary authority in 1962, then to Indonesia in 1963.
Enschedé's Haarlem plant handled the printing, as it did for most Dutch colonial paper issues of the period. The watermark security is modest for the denomination, reflecting the note's low purchasing-power role in a small, isolated economy.