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20 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1919-1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange on a cream paper ground, the obverse is dominated by a central intaglio vignette of the De Javasche Bank headquarters building in Batavia, rendered in fine line engraving and framed by an arched guilloche band bearing the legend BETAALT AAN TOONDER. Large ornate numeral '20' counters appear at left and right within intricate lathe-work rosettes, with the denomination TWINTIG GULDEN inscribed along the lower centre. The date BATAVIA, 16 OCT. 1919 appears at lower left and right respectively, with two manuscript signatures below the titles SECRETARIS and DE PRESIDENT, and the printer's imprint AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange, green and blue, the reverse carries anti-counterfeiting legal warnings in four languages — Dutch, Javanese (in Javanese script), Chinese (in traditional characters), and Malay (in Jawi script) — arranged in parallel text blocks across the face. Guilloche underprint patterns and ornamental borders frame the text panels, providing visual security without a central pictorial vignette. |
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De Javasche Bank's relationship with American Bank Note Company stretched across several decades, but the 1919–1921 period carried particular logistical weight: wartime disruptions had severed or complicated access to European printers, and ABNC in New York became the practical alternative for Dutch colonial currency production in the East Indies.
P#66 is among the scarcer gulden notes from this transitional window. The series was short-lived, superseded as the bank regularized its postwar printing arrangements.