Catalog
500 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1938-1939 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1854-1948) |
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| Obverse lettering | DE JAVASCHE BANK BETAALD AAN TOONDER VIJF HONDERD GULDEN BATAVIA (Translation: The Javasche Bank Pay to the Bearer Five Hundred Gulden Batavia) |
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| Protection description | Head of the Goddess of Justice and Truth. |
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De Javasche Bank's 500 Gulden was the highest denomination in regular circulation for the Netherlands East Indies before the Japanese occupation. Notes of this series, issued just ahead of the Pacific war, were subject to an emergency denial policy — Dutch colonial authorities attempted to withdraw and destroy high-value paper to prevent Japanese forces from seizing usable currency stocks after the 1942 capitulation. Survival rates are correspondingly low.
Enschedé's Haarlem plant had printed for De Javasche Bank across multiple series; the firm's intaglio work on this denomination is among the more technically refined colonial output of the period.