1000 Gulden

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.