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500 Gulden
| Issuer | Bank van Nederlands Oost-Indië (Fantasy Issue) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Polymer |
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| Obverse description | Right half dominated by a large vignette of a tattooed and traditionally adorned tribal face with horn ornaments and ear discs. Left centre carries a botanical vignette of an Epiphyllum crenatum orchid cactus in full bloom with green foliage. The denomination numeral 500 appears in large guilloche-patterned figures at lower centre against a red and white fine-line underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 GEEN WETTIG BETAALMIDDEL VIJFHONDERD GULDEN BANK VAN NEDERLANDS OOST INDIË 500 Pavo muticus Goura victoria © FRANCK MEDINA 2016 (Translation: No legal tender Bank of the Netherlands East Indies) |
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A fantasy note with no monetary authority behind it — the Bank van Nederlands Oost-Indië dissolved in 1953 when De Javasche Bank was nationalized and ultimately became Bank Indonesia. Medina's polymer productions, issued decades after any plausible institutional continuity, exist entirely outside the issuing tradition they invoke.
Collector interest in these pieces rests entirely on the production quality and novelty of the polymer substrate, not on any historical claim.