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1 Gulden Treasury Note
| Issuer | Government of Netherlands East Indies |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 130 × 74 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue on a beige underprint, the reverse is dominated by a dense guilloche pattern covering the entire surface. The denomination EEN GULDEN appears vertically in large letters along both the left and right margins, with the numeral value "1/-" repeated in each of the four corners. A central oval cartouche, framed by the inscriptions NEDERLANDSCH-INDIE and WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL, encloses the anti-counterfeiting penal code text in Dutch. |
| Reverse lettering | EEN GULDEN Het namaken of vervalsehen van muntbiljetten met het oogmerk om die als echt en onvervalscht uit te geven of te doen uitgeven, wordtgestraft met gevangenisstraf van ten hoogste vijftien jaren. EEN GULDEN (Translation: One Gulden Counterfeiting or falsifying currency notes with the intention of issuing or having them issued as genuine and unforged is punishable by a prison sentence of not more than fifteen years.) |
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The Netherlands East Indies government issued this note directly through the treasury rather than through the Javasche Bank, the colonial central bank. That distinction mattered: treasury notes of this denomination were intended to fill a practical gap in small-denomination circulation that the Javasche Bank's charter did not comfortably accommodate. De Bussy was a well-established Amsterdam commercial printer rather than a specialist security printer, which is reflected in the relatively modest production values of the series.
The 1920 date places this note in the immediate postwar adjustment period, when colonial commodity revenues — particularly from sugar and rubber — were still inflated, creating unusual demand for small-denomination paper in everyday market transactions across Java.