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50 Cents - Wilhelmina
| Issuer | Government of Netherlands East Indies |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Gulden (decimalized, 1854-1948) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted note with an intaglio portrait of Queen Wilhelmina at right and the crowned supported Arms of the Netherlands East Indies as a vignette at left. Intricate guilloche underprint fills the background, with denomination and bilingual legends arranged across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark green on a light ground, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate guilloche border and a large central numeral "50" above the word "CENT" in bold lettering, with a circled "50" medallion at the top. Anti-counterfeiting penal code texts appear in two flanking panels, rendered in Dutch on the left and Malay on the right, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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Printed by the American Bank Note Company at its New York facility, this note was produced for the Dutch colonial government-in-exile after the Japanese occupation of the East Indies in early 1942 had severed all contact with Batavia. The Netherlands East Indies administration relocated its operations to Australia and eventually coordinated currency production through Allied channels — hence New York rather than Amsterdam or Batavia.
The 1943 series was prepared well before any realistic prospect of repatriation, intended for rapid deployment once the islands were retaken. Actual reintroduction came too late and too disrupted for these notes to see meaningful circulation in their intended territory.