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5 Gulden Recepis
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1846 |
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| Reference(s) | P#40 |
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| Obverse lettering | RECEPIS. VYF GULDEN. خمس كلدين ហាណាក្តីទាំងប្រាំបាន; PYF GULDEN. Vijf Gulden. |
| Reverse description | Blank unprinted paper reverse with no design, text, or ornamentation. Faint diagonal cancellation lines are visible, consistent with a redeemed or cancelled note. |
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De Javasche Bank was established by charter of the Dutch crown in 1828 as the colonial central bank for the Netherlands East Indies, and its earliest note issues were tightly controlled instruments designed to facilitate trade settlement rather than general public exchange. The 1846 Recepis series occupied an unusual middle ground — not quite a conventional banknote, closer to a negotiable receipt, reflecting the hybrid financial instruments that Dutch colonial banking relied on in this period.
P#40 is among the earliest documented paper issues attributed to the bank, which makes surviving examples genuinely rare. The Javasche Bank's pre-1870 material is poorly catalogued relative to later issues.