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1000 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1864-1890 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on a pale green wave-pattern guilloche underprint and is dominated by a central horizontal cartouche bearing the bank name 'JAVASCHE BANK', flanked by three large circular guilloche rosettes displaying the denomination numeral '1000'. Four ornate rectangular text frames occupy each corner, containing the anti-counterfeiting legal warning in Dutch (upper left), Javanese script (lower left), Arabic script (upper right), and Chinese characters (lower right), reflecting the multilingual legal framework of the colonial territory. |
| Reverse lettering | JAVASCHE BANK 1000 (Translation: Bank of Java.) |
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De Javasche Bank, established in Batavia in 1828 as the colonial central bank of the Dutch East Indies, issued this high-denomination note through a period of considerable economic expansion tied to the cultivation system's decline and the transition toward liberal agrarian policy. The 1000 Gulden face value placed it firmly in interbank and merchant use — ordinary colonial subjects would rarely have touched one.
P#51 is genuinely rare in any condition. The long issuance window of over two decades masks the reality that surviving examples are extremely few, almost certainly because high-value notes of this type were retired quickly through the banking system rather than held outside it.