Catalog
5 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1926-1931 |
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| Value | 5 Gulden |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet and brown, the reverse centres on a vignette of the Javasche Bank building in Batavia, flanked by guilloché panels and the numeral '5' at each of the four corners. Legal text in four languages surrounds the central vignette, and the overall design is framed by an ornate geometric border consistent with the obverse style. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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De Javasche Bank, headquartered in Batavia, held the note-issuing monopoly for the Dutch East Indies throughout the colonial period. This series was produced by Enschedé in Haarlem and shipped to the colony — a logistical arrangement that made the notes vulnerable to wartime interruption, which would become catastrophically relevant when Japanese forces occupied the Indies in 1942 and rendered the entire Javasche Bank circulation worthless almost overnight.
P#69 is among the last issues of this denomination before the 1930s series revision. The Enschedé watermark remains the primary security feature, consistent with the firm's long practice of manufacturing their own security papers in-house.