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.
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.