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200 Gulden
| Issuer | Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Value | 200 Gulden |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in rose-red on a light ground, framed by an ornate guilloche border. At left stands a classical allegorical female figure with a caduceus on a pedestal, while at right an oval portrait vignette presents a bearded gentleman in period ruff collar. The denomination '200' appears in the upper centre, with the issuer's name 'De Javasche Bank' and the legend 'TWEE HONDERD GULDEN' in bold letterpress across the centre, below which the place and date 'Batavia, 31 Juni 1908' are inscribed, with spaces for the Secretaris and President signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in muted rose and green tones, dominated by an elaborate geometric and floral guilloche design. A large central circular guilloche medallion occupies the upper portion, flanked at the lower corners by two hexagonal medallions with ornamental surround, and the numeral '200' appears in green at upper left and upper right as well as centrally at the foot within a cartouche. Rectangular blank panels are interspersed within the intricate lathe-work underprint, all enclosed within a finely engraved border. |
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The Javasche Bank, established in 1828 as the central bank of the Dutch East Indies, produced this 200 Gulden note at a denomination that placed it firmly outside everyday commerce — high-value notes of this series moved between merchants, colonial administrators, and inter-island trading houses rather than through ordinary retail hands. That restricted circulation pattern is precisely why surviving examples in any condition are uncommon; they weren't handled by the general public, but they were used hard in commercial settlement.
Pick 63 is among the scarcer issues of the pre-war Javasche Bank series. The 1908 date predates the significant monetary disruptions of the First World War, which later forced the bank to revisit its higher denomination notes entirely.