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25 Gulden Recepis
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1846 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on cream paper. A large central circular guilloche vignette contains the denomination in numerals within a dotted rosette, surrounded by radiating sunburst rays and flanked by two oval side panels bearing the numeral '25'. The value is inscribed in Dutch, Arabic, and Javanese script. A decorative typographic border frames the entire note, with the header 'NEDERLANDSCH OOST-INDIEN' at top. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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De Javasche Bank, established in 1828 under Dutch colonial authority in Batavia, issued its early Gulden notes during a period when the colony's monetary supply was chronically disorganized — Spanish dollars, Dutch rijksdaalders, and VOC-era copper all circulated alongside paper. The "Recepis" designation is significant: these were essentially receipts for deposited coin rather than conventional banknotes, a distinction that mattered legally and practically in the Dutch East Indies at mid-century.
Surviving examples from this 1846 series are genuinely rare. The humid equatorial climate of Java was brutal on paper currency, and the bank periodically recalled and destroyed worn stock.