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50 Cents - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Government of Netherlands East Indies |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 50 Cents (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted note with an intaglio portrait of Queen Wilhelmina at right and the crowned supported Arms of the Netherlands East Indies as a vignette at left. Intricate guilloche underprint fills the background, with denomination and bilingual legends arranged across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | HET NAMAKEN OF VERVALSCHEN VAN MUNTBILJETTEN, HET OPZETTELIJK UITGEVEN, IN VOORRAAD HEBBEN OF BINNEN NEDERLANDSCH-INDIË INVOEREN VAN VALSCHE OF VERVALSCHTE MUNTBILJETTEN, IS BIJ DE ARTIKELEN 244, 245 EN 249 WETBOEK VAN STRAFRECHT STRAFBAAR GESTELD. DIDALAM FATSAL 244, 245 DAN 249 DARI KITAB OENDANG OENDANG HOEKOEMAN DITETAPKAN HOEKOEMAN OENTOEK JANG MENIROE ATAU MEMALSOEKAN OEWANG KERTAS DAN OENTOEK JANG MENGLOEARKAN DENGAN SENGADJA, MENJIMPAN ATAU MEMASOEKKAN OEWANG KERTAS LANTJOENG ATAU JANG DIDJADIKAN LANTJOENG KE HINDIA-BELANDA. AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: The counterfeiting of currency notes, the intentional issuing, stockpiling or importing of counterfeit currency notes within the Dutch East Indies is punishable by Articles 244, 245 and 249 of the Criminal Code.) |
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Printed by the American Bank Note Company at its New York facility, this note was produced for the Dutch colonial government-in-exile after the Japanese occupation of the East Indies in early 1942 had severed all contact with Batavia. The Netherlands East Indies administration relocated its operations to Australia and eventually coordinated currency production through Allied channels — hence New York rather than Amsterdam or Batavia.
The 1943 series was prepared well before any realistic prospect of repatriation, intended for rapid deployment once the islands were retaken. Actual reintroduction came too late and too disrupted for these notes to see meaningful circulation in their intended territory.