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200 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1938-1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse dominated in the lower half by a large, richly detailed fan-shaped guilloche rosette in red, black and ochre. The upper portion is divided into three panels bearing the anti-counterfeiting warning text in four scripts — Dutch (left panel), Javanese in Hanacaraka script (centre-left), Malay in Jawi/Arabic script (centre-right) and Chinese (right panel) — framed by intricate ornamental borders. The denomination "TWEE HONDERD GULDEN" and the bank name "DE JAVASCHE BANK" are printed in bold lettering across the centre, with decorative vignettes in the four corners. |
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| Protection description | Head of the Goddess of Justice and Truth. |
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De Javasche Bank's 200 Gulden was among the highest-denomination notes in circulation in the Dutch East Indies during the final years before Japanese occupation. When Japanese forces invaded in early 1942, the colonial authorities undertook emergency destruction of currency stocks to deny usable liquidity to the occupiers — a significant portion of this series never reached the public at all.
Lion Cachet's involvement is worth noting. A Dutch artist deeply shaped by his time in Java, he brought genuine knowledge of Indonesian visual culture to his commissions for Enschedé rather than the usual orientalist approximations common to colonial banknote design of the period.