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1000 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 1000 Roepiah |
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| Obverse description | A pastoral vignette of terraced rice fields and a rural hillside landscape occupies the left portion of the note, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. To the right, a large guilloché rosette with an ornate circular underprint frames the denomination numeral 1000. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower centre, below the titles SEGRETARIS and PRESIDENT. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper stock |
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De Javasche Bank resumed operations after Japanese occupation ended in 1945, but the political ground had already shifted — Sukarno's independence declaration in August 1945 meant these notes entered circulation during active armed conflict between Dutch forces and Indonesian nationalists. A 1000-unit note printed in Haarlem and shipped across a contested sea had limited practical reach in territories the Dutch no longer reliably controlled.
Enschedé's production quality was never in question, but survival rates for high-denomination notes from this series are complicated by the December 1949 transfer of sovereignty, after which De Javasche Bank's currency was progressively replaced.