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5 Gulden
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1866 |
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| Value | 5 Gulden |
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| Obverse lettering | DE JAVASCHE BANK betaalt aan Toonder VIJF GULDEN BATAVIA, 1 October 1866 SECRETARIS PRESIDENT |
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| Reverse lettering | Met den dood, te pronkstelling, opsluiting in correctiehuis en Verbanning en tot eene aanzienlijke geldboete kan nagemaakt of Valschelijk billetten der Bank. (Staatsblad 1817 no. 4, 1822 no. 22 en 1829 no. 13.) |
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De Javasche Bank was established in 1828 as a semi-private institution modeled on the Nederlandsche Bank, and it held the monopoly on banknote issuance in the Dutch East Indies throughout the colonial period. Notes printed locally in Batavia — rather than contracted to European security printers — are relatively uncommon for mid-nineteenth-century colonial issues, most of which relied on Dutch or British firms for production.
The 1866 date places this note in a period of significant sugar and coffee export expansion across Java, when demand for reliable paper instruments was growing faster than coin supply could support. Local printing capacity at this stage was limited, and the quality of Batavia-produced notes from this decade is noticeably uneven.