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5 Sen Netherlands East Indies
| Issuer | Japan |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Gulden (1942-1944) |
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| Obverse lettering | 大日本 5 2603 (Translation: Great Japan 5 2603) |
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| Mintage | 1943 - NE2603 |
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Japan occupied the Netherlands East Indies from early 1942 and almost immediately faced the problem of supplying coinage to a vast archipelago while aluminium shortages at home were already biting. These occupation issues were struck in Japan and shipped out, a logistical reality that kept mintages concentrated rather than distributed across local facilities. The Dutch colonial coinage they displaced had been evacuated or melted; what remained in circulation was improvised.
By 1943, the aluminium allocation for subsidiary coinage was already being squeezed by military demands.