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100 Rijksdaalder
| Issuer | Hollandsche Indische Gouvernement |
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| Year | 1810 |
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| Reference(s) | P#171 |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset note in a rectangular border, with text in Dutch at the top and a substantial block of Javanese/Arabic script in the central field. The upper portion carries a handwritten serial number and the denomination 'Goed voor Rijksdaalders 100' in manuscript. A circular embossed seal dated 1810 appears at lower left, accompanied by multiple manuscript signatures. The date 'Batavia den 2den van Wintermaand 1810' is inscribed above the signature panel. |
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| Protection description | Circular embossed dry seal dated 1810 applied at lower left of the note. |
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By 1810, the Hollandsche Indische Gouvernement was operating under severe strain — the Napoleonic Wars had effectively severed the Dutch East Indies from its European supply lines, leaving colonial authorities to manage currency production entirely within Batavia. This note is a product of that isolation. Printed locally rather than shipped from Europe, it reflects an administration improvising financial instruments without access to the sophisticated engravers or security printing infrastructure that metropolitan banks took for granted.
The embossed seal was the primary — arguably the only meaningful — security measure available under those conditions. Louis Napoleon had incorporated the Batavian Republic into France just two years prior, and the colonial government's legal status was itself uncertain by the time this note was issued.