Catalog
1 Gulden - Young Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Gouvernement van Nederlandsch-Indië (Government of the Netherlands East Indies) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
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| Size | 125 × 76 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the reverse is dominated by the fully supported Dutch royal coat of arms at center — two rampant lions flanking a crowned quartered shield — set within an elaborate intaglio-engraved border with guilloche rosettes and numeral '1' counters at the four corners. The denomination EEN GULDEN is boldly lettered in a panel at the foot, with the printer's imprint below. |
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| Variants | P#100a(1) - 01.08.1919 - 11.10.1920 / 04.08.1919 overprinted date and signature title at left P#100a(2) - 01.08.1919 - 11.10.1920 / 20.11.1919 date and signature titles in plate |
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The Netherlands East Indies government turned to the American Bank Note Company for this series because wartime had effectively severed practical access to European printers — De La Rue and the Dutch state printer were either overcommitted or unreachable during the disruption of the First World War. New York was the pragmatic alternative, and ABNCo had long experience supplying colonial currency to distant administrations.
Pick 100 is one of the scarcer low-denomination colonial notes of the period. Small-value notes circulate hardest and survive least, and the tropical climate of the archipelago was brutal on paper.