1000 Gulden

De Javasche Bank held a monopoly on currency issuance in the Dutch East Indies, and at 1000 Gulden this was among the highest denominations it ever placed into circulation — a note that moved between merchants, trading houses, and colonial institutions rather than anywhere near ordinary retail use. The Haarlem firm of Enschedé had printed colonial currency for the Netherlands and its overseas territories across multiple generations by the time this series was produced, and their security work was technically accomplished enough that forgery remained a marginal problem throughout the issue period.

The series spans 1926 to 1930, years of relative colonial financial stability before the catastrophic commodity price collapses of the early 1930s gutted plantation revenues across Java and Sumatra.