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1000 Gulden Kopergeld
| Issuer | Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1832 |
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| Reference(s) | P#24 |
| Obverse description | Printed in red, the note bears a rectangular guilloche border frame with ornamental corner devices. The large numeral "1000" appears at upper centre, with the vertical inscription "KOPERGELD" along the left margin. Text in Dutch and Javanese script occupies the central field, referencing the Javasche Bank and authorising payment in copper currency. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows a mirror impression of the obverse design printed through the paper, with the guilloche border and central text visible in reverse orientation. The note is otherwise unprinted, with no additional design elements. |
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The Javasche Bank's copper money notes — kopergeld — were not backed by silver or gold but by copper coin stocks held in the colonial treasury, a deliberately inconvertible arrangement that suited the VOC's successor administration in Batavia. The 1832 date places this squarely within the bank's early period, when it was still finding its footing as a colonial central bank barely a decade after its 1828 founding charter.
Notes of this denomination from this series are among the rarest surviving colonial Dutch East Indies paper, with documented examples countable in single figures. The copper backing scheme was abandoned well before mid-century.