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1/2 Gulden Treasury Note
| Issuer | Government of Netherlands East Indies |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint, with the crowned supported arms of the Netherlands East Indies at center within an ornate guilloche vignette. The serial number, comprising two letters and five digits, appears on the note; paper exists with or without embedded fibers. Surrounding text carries the full legal tender and redemption clause, with registration date and printer attribution. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCH-INDIË MUNTBILJET Wordt in betaling hangenomen door De Javasche Bank en aan alle landskassen inwisselbaar in zilver na aankondiging. Geregistreerd: Batavia, 14 Januari 1920. GROOT EEN HALVE GULDEN WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL Topographische Inrichting, Batavia (Translation: Netherlands Indies Coin Note Will be collected for payment by De Javasche Bank and can be exchanged for silver at all national treasuries after announcement. Registered: Batavia, January 14, 1920. Half Gulden Legal Tender Topographical Establishment, Batavia) |
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The Topographische Inrichting — the colonial topographic survey office in Batavia — was an unusual choice for currency printing, but the Dutch East Indies administration relied on local production capacity during the years when war and its aftermath disrupted normal supply chains from the Netherlands. The half-gulden denomination in paper was itself a concession to coin shortages; silver fractional coins were being hoarded well into the early 1920s.
P#102 is one of the more modestly produced notes in the NEI series — local press, small format, low face value. Condition tends to suffer from tropical humidity, and paper quality from the Batavia-printed issues generally lags behind the Amsterdam-produced contemporaries.