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100 Gulden - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Nederlandsch-Indische Gouvernement (Netherlands Indies Government) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 152 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCH INDIË MUNTBILJET HONDERD NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE GOUVERNEMENTSGULDEN SERATOES ROEPIAH WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL 100 UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS KONINKLIJK BESLUIT VAN 2 MAART 1943, Nº 1 STBL.D8 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Dutch Indies Treasury Note Hundred 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 | Green note with a central vignette composed of a military pilot with aircraft, a soldier, and a naval vessel, evoking the Allied war effort. Penal warning text against counterfeiting is printed in Dutch at left and in Bahasa Indonesia (in the old Van Ophuijsen orthography) at right, within decorative borders. |
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This note belongs to the emergency series produced in the United States after the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in early 1942 effectively severed the colonial administration from its territory. The Netherlands Indies Government, operating in exile, contracted the American Bank Note Company to produce currency that could theoretically re-enter circulation once the archipelago was liberated — a function that was partly realized after 1945, though the notes competed with a chaotic mix of Japanese occupation scrip and returning Dutch issues.
The 1943 date places production squarely in wartime, when ABNC was simultaneously handling emergency currency contracts for multiple displaced governments.