Catalog
40 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1919-1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio print on white paper. A central vignette presents the De Javasche Bank headquarters building in Batavia, framed within an ornate guilloche border with four large denomination numeral medallions at the corners. The bank title "DE JAVASCHE BANK" arches across the top, with the bearer clause "BETAALT AAN TOONDER" on a ribbon above the central vignette, and the spelled-out value "VEERTIG GULDEN" on a panel below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, brown, and blue on white paper. The reverse carries anti-counterfeiting legal warnings in four languages — Dutch, Javanese, Chinese, and Malay — arranged in parallel text blocks across the note. A decorative guilloche border frames the composition, consistent with the American Bank Note Company's engraving style of the period. |
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De Javasche Bank turned to the American Bank Note Company for this series because the disruption of World War One had severed reliable access to European security printers — the bank's previous supplier relationships ran through the Netherlands and were effectively suspended during the war years. ABNC filled that gap across multiple denominations simultaneously, producing notes intended to circulate in the Netherlands East Indies under colonial monetary administration from Batavia.
The 40 guilder denomination is the awkward one in this series. It sits between more naturally spaced values and saw comparatively limited demand, which means surviving examples in any grade are genuinely less common than the lower denominations from the same print run.