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10 Gulden - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies Government) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 150 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCH INDIË MUNTBILJET TIEN NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE GOUVERNEMENTSGULDEN SEPOELOEH ROEPIAH WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL 10 UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS KONINKLIJK BESLUIT VAN 2 MAART 1943, Nº 1 STBL.D8 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Dutch Indies Treasury Note Ten Dutch Indies Government Gulden Legal Tender Issued pursuant to Royal Decree of March 2, 1943, no.1 Stbl.D8 American Bank Note Company) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse carries a central allegorical vignette uniting the three branches of the Dutch East Indies armed forces: an aviator with aircraft, a soldier, and a naval vessel, evoking wartime patriotic imagery. Anti-counterfeiting penal warnings are set in parallel columns, with the Dutch text of Articles 244, 245, and 249 of the Criminal Code at left and the Malay-language equivalent at right, flanking the central design. |
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This note was produced in wartime New York because the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, which began in early 1942, had entirely severed the colonial government from its territory. The Netherlands Indies Civil Administration and the Dutch government-in-exile arranged printing contracts with the American Bank Note Company for a series of denominations intended for reintroduction once the archipelago was liberated — currency prepared in anticipation of a return, not an ongoing administration.
Repatriation came too late for orderly circulation. The 1943 series arrived in the Indies only in the chaotic final months of the Pacific War and its immediate aftermath, competing almost immediately with Japanese occupation scrip, pre-war Dutch colonial notes, and eventually the entirely new monetary structure imposed by the Indonesian independence movement. Many from this print run never circulated at all.