5 Gulden

The Government of Nederlandsch Oost-Indien issued this note during a particularly awkward transitional moment: the Dutch East Indies had been under British administration from 1811 to 1816 following Napoleon's dissolution of the Batavian Republic, and 1815 falls squarely within that interregnum. Notes bearing colonial Dutch authority during British occupation represent a legal and administrative tangle that has never been fully resolved in the scholarly literature.

Pick lists only two notes for this issuer, making the series exceptionally sparse. Surviving examples from 1815 are rarely encountered outside specialist auctions.