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50 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 50 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | De Javasche Bank Betaalt aan Toonder Vijftig Gulden Membajar Kepada Pembawa Lima Poeloeh Roepiah (Translation: The Java Bank Will pay to the bearer Fifty Gulden Fifty Roepiah) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette with a stylised interlaced 'JB' monogram at its heart, flanked by two circular guilloche medallions in the upper corners and two further partial medallions at lower left and right. Anti-counterfeiting legal warning texts appear in Dutch and Malay in the upper left and upper right panels, while two additional text panels in Javanese script and Chinese characters occupy the lower left and lower right corners respectively. Serial number and prefix 'SRE' are printed in blue in the centre field. |
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De Javasche Bank's operations had been suspended during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, and this note was part of the effort to re-establish a functioning currency after liberation. Printed in Haarlem by Enschedé — the firm that had handled Dutch colonial currency work for decades — the note was prepared in the Netherlands before being shipped out to the archipelago.
The dual denomination, Gulden and Roepiah, reflects the transitional monetary moment: Dutch colonial accounting units sat uneasily alongside local usage, and the Indonesian independence declaration of August 1945 had already made the political ground beneath this note deeply unstable before it even entered circulation.