10 Gulden Recepis

De Javasche Bank was established in 1828 as the central bank of the Dutch East Indies, and by the 1840s its notes were functioning as the primary paper currency across Java. The "Recepis" designation is significant — these were not standard banknotes but deposit receipts, a form used by the bank before its full note-issuing infrastructure was consolidated. The distinction mattered legally and practically to merchants trading between Batavia and the interior.

P#41 is among the earliest surviving documented issues from this institution. Attrition in the tropical climate was severe; paper deteriorated rapidly in Java's humidity, and few examples from this decade survived in any condition.