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50 Gulden/Roepiah
| Issuer | De Javasche Bank |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 50 Rupiah |
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| Obverse description | A finely engraved vignette at left centre portrays a traditional Indonesian sailing proa under full sail on choppy water, rendered in intaglio against a detailed guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large format at upper left and within an ornate circular guilloche panel at right. Bank title and bilingual denomination inscriptions are set in bold letterpress across the upper and centre fields, with two manuscript signatures above the titles 'Secretaris' and 'President' along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | De Javasche Bank Betaalt aan Toonder Vijftig Gulden Membajar Kepada Pembawa Lima Poeloeh Roepiah (Translation: The Java Bank Will pay to the bearer Fifty Gulden Fifty Roepiah) |
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De Javasche Bank's operations had been suspended during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, and this note was part of the effort to re-establish a functioning currency after liberation. Printed in Haarlem by Enschedé — the firm that had handled Dutch colonial currency work for decades — the note was prepared in the Netherlands before being shipped out to the archipelago.
The dual denomination, Gulden and Roepiah, reflects the transitional monetary moment: Dutch colonial accounting units sat uneasily alongside local usage, and the Indonesian independence declaration of August 1945 had already made the political ground beneath this note deeply unstable before it even entered circulation.