Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
|---|---|
| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 10 Gulden |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | A finely engraved vignette of a mangosteen branch with fruit and foliage is positioned to the left, set against a guilloche underprint in olive-green tones. The bilingual denomination TIEN GULDEN in Dutch and SEPOELOEH ROEPIAH in Malay is centred beneath the issuing authority's title DE JAVASCHE BANK at the top, with the promise-to-pay legends in both languages arranged below. Two manuscript signatures of the Secretaris and President appear beneath the central text, while the numeral 10 repeats in large format within an ornate geometric panel at the upper and lower right. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | KG 093462 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
De Javasche Bank had been shut out of the Dutch East Indies since the Japanese occupation in 1942, and by 1946 the colonial monetary situation was chaotic — the Japanese military scrip, locally called "Mickey Mouse money," had collapsed, and competing currencies from the Indonesian nationalist movement complicated any restoration effort. This note was printed in Haarlem well after the Japanese surrender but arrived into a colony that was already, politically, slipping away.
The dual denomination — Gulden and Roepiah on the same face — reflects a deliberate transitional stance, acknowledging the local monetary identity while reasserting Dutch banking authority. That compromise satisfied neither side. De Javasche Bank's renewed operations in Indonesia effectively ended by 1953 when the newly independent government nationalized it as Bank Indonesia.