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10 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Currency | Rupiah (1950-1965) |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio-engraved vignette of a mangosteen branch with fruit and foliage is set against a lightly guilloche-patterned underprint in violet, with the large denomination numeral "10" at upper left and again within an ornate lathe-work medallion at right. The central text block carries bilingual inscriptions in Dutch and Malay, with the date 1946 below. Two manuscript signatures appear beneath the text, attributed to the Secretaris and President respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | HZN 103996 103996 HZN |
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De Javasche Bank had been shut out of the Netherlands East Indies since the Japanese occupation began in 1942, and this note was printed in Haarlem well before the Dutch had any real foothold to reintroduce it. By the time it entered circulation in 1946, the Indonesian independence declaration was already nine months old — Sukarno had proclaimed the Republic in August 1945 — making this a colonial reissue arriving into a territory that no longer recognized the issuing authority.
The dual denomination, Gulden and Roepiah at parity, was a deliberate bridging formula, acknowledging the monetary reality on the ground while asserting Dutch administrative continuity. It didn't hold. De Javasche Bank's role in the archipelago effectively ended within a few years, and this series was among its last acts as a functioning issuer.