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25 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Value | 25 Gulden |
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| Obverse lettering | De Javasche Bank BETAALT — AAN — TOONDER VIJF EN TWINTIG GULDEN Batavia, 31 Juni 1908 Secretaris President |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 |
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De Javasche Bank, established in 1828 as the colonial central bank of the Dutch East Indies, issued this note during a period when the archipelago's plantation economy was generating substantial export revenues from tobacco, rubber, and coffee. The 1908 series reflected genuine confidence in the bank's position — it held the exclusive right of note issue and maintained a gold-backed reserve policy that was unusually strict by regional standards.
P#62A is a scarcer variant within the broader 62 family. Cotton-paper notes of this vintage from Batavia-administered banks are particularly vulnerable to tropical humidity damage, and genuinely clean survivors are rare in any grade.