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50 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1926-1930 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DE JAVASHE BANK BETAALT AAN TONDER VIJFTIG GULDEN Batavia 12 Augustus 1929 JOH ENSCHEDÉ EN ZONEN (Translation: The Javanese Bank Pay to the Bearer Fifty Gulden Batavia August 12, 1929 Joh. Enschedé and Sons) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour. A central vignette at upper centre presents the Javasche Bank building in Batavia, flanked on both sides by the numeral "50" as denomination indicators. Legal text appears in four languages occupying the lower portion of the reverse. |
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De Javasche Bank was the Dutch colonial bank of issue for the Netherlands East Indies, and Enschedé in Haarlem had printed its notes since the nineteenth century — a relationship built on proximity to the colonial administration in The Hague rather than any obvious logistical advantage. The 50 Gulden denomination sat at the upper end of routine commercial transactions in the colony during this period, used primarily in inter-merchant and European-sector trade rather than indigenous daily commerce.
The late 1920s were a precarious moment for the Indies economy: rubber and sugar prices collapsed sharply after 1926, and the notes of this issue circulated through a contracting export economy. Enschedé's watermark security was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a reflection of how little the bank had updated its note security since earlier series.