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1 Gulden Kopergeld
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1832 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress print on white paper within a rectangular guilloche border. The numeral "1" appears in the upper centre, with handwritten manuscript fields for number, sum, and date at left and top right. A Dutch-language text block at centre authorises exchange for one hundred Dutch stuivers at the Land's Kas, signed on behalf of the President en Directeuren der Javasche Bank, with the denomination stated as "Goed voor Een Stuiten Koperen Munt." |
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| Reverse description | Blank, showing only the faint letterpress offset impression of the obverse design visible through the paper. |
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De Javasche Bank was established by Dutch royal charter in 1828, just years before this note appeared, and its early paper issues faced an uphill battle in a colonial economy where Chinese traders and local populations alike distrusted anything that wasn't specie. The "kopergeld" designation — copper money — was a deliberate fiction meant to anchor the note's psychological value to the copper coinage it nominally represented, rather than to silver or gold.
Surviving examples from this 1832 issue are exceptionally rare. The Dutch East Indies climate was brutal on paper currency, and redemption cycles destroyed much of what circulation didn't.