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10 Gulden
| Issuer | Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea (Dutch New Guinea) |
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| Year | 1954 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple and blue-green, dominated by a large central vignette of a Bird of Paradise with wings spread, rendered in fine intaglio linework against an elaborate guilloché background. Decorative rosette and scroll underprints occupy the left and right panels, each bearing the numeral 10. The serial number appears in two places across the upper portion of the note, and the inscription UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS DE WET GELDREGELING NIEUW GUINEA runs along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS DE WET GELDREGELING NIEUW GUINEA 10 |
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Dutch New Guinea maintained its own currency even as the political status of the territory became increasingly untenable through the 1950s. This note was issued under Dutch colonial administration at a moment when Indonesia had been pressing its claim to the territory since independence in 1949 — the Dutch held on until 1962, when the New York Agreement transferred administration to the UN and then to Indonesia the following year.
Joh. Enschedé en Zonen printed colonial and overseas issues for the Netherlands throughout this period, and their work on the Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea series is technically clean. Notes from the later years of the series saw relatively limited circulation before the currency was dissolved during the 1963 transition.