100 Gulden - Wilhelmina

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.