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500 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and features an elaborate geometric guilloche pattern at centre, with the interlaced monogram of De Javasche Bank. Legal warning texts appear in Dutch and Malay in the upper panels, with additional text panels in Javanese script and Chinese characters in the lower corners. The serial number and prefix letters are printed twice. |
| Reverse lettering | HET NAMAKEN OF VERVALSSCHEN VAN BANKBILJETTEN IS STRAFBAAR BARANG SIAPA MEMALSUKAN ATAU MEMBUAT TIRUAN DARI BANKBILJETTEN INI AKAN DITUNTUT DENGAN SANKSI HUKUM 500 |
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De Javasche Bank printed this note in Haarlem while the Netherlands itself was still recovering from German occupation — the Dutch printing industry had barely resumed normal operations when this order was placed. The dual-currency denomination, Gulden and Roepiah, reflects the unresolved monetary status of the Dutch East Indies in 1946, when the colonial administration was attempting to reassert financial authority over territory that Japanese occupying forces had flooded with their own occupation currency and that Indonesian nationalists had declared independent the previous August.
Enschedé's involvement was a practical necessity — few printers outside the Netherlands had the existing relationship and security infrastructure for Javasche Bank issues. Notes of this type arrived in the Indies into a situation where their acceptance was far from guaranteed.