3 Rijksdaalder

The Gouvernement Generaal van's Konings Bezittingen in Indiën — the Napoleonic-era governing authority installed after Louis Bonaparte made Herman Willem Daendels Governor-General in 1808 — issued this note under conditions of near-total commercial isolation. The British naval blockade had severed Batavia's trade connections with the Netherlands, and conventional specie was in chronic short supply across the colony.

Printed locally in Batavia rather than shipped from Europe, the notes relied on handstamping as their primary authentication — a pragmatic solution when sophisticated anti-counterfeiting infrastructure simply did not exist in the colony. The rijksdaalder denomination itself was already an anachronism by 1809, tied to a monetary system that Napoleonic reorganization was in the process of dismantling back in Europe.