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5 Gulden - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Nederlandsch-Indië (Dutch East Indies Government) |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NEDERLANDSCH INDIË MUNTBILJET VIJF NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE GOUVERNEMENTSGULDEN LIMA ROEPIAH WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL 5 UITGEGEVEN KRACHTENS KONINKLIJK BESLUIT VAN 2 MAART 1943, Nº 1 STBL.D8 AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY. (Translation: Dutch Indies Treasury Note Five Dutch Indies Government Gulden Legal Tender Issued pursuant to Royal Decree of March 2, 1943, no.1 Stbl.D8 American Bank Note Company) |
| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse presents a central allegorical vignette comprising a military pilot with aircraft, a soldier, and a naval vessel, evoking the wartime Allied forces context of the exile issue. Anti-counterfeiting penal code warnings are set in parallel columns, with the Dutch text at left and the Malay (Bahasa Indonesia) equivalent at right, framing the central design. |
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This note belongs to the emergency series produced in the United States after the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in early 1942 made domestic printing impossible. The Netherlands Indies government-in-exile coordinated production with American Bank Note Company in New York, and the resulting notes were stockpiled for reintroduction once the islands could be liberated — a process that proved far more complicated and protracted than planners had anticipated.
Many from this series entered circulation only after 1945, during the chaotic transitional period preceding Indonesian independence, when multiple currency authorities were competing for legitimacy on the same territory.