10 Gulden/Roepiah

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.