By Rob Huisman, August 2014. Recently surfaced extremely rare PoW money from Tamuang (Tamuan), Thailand. c. 1944. Tamuang camp, thirty nine kilometres north of Nong Pladuk (also known as Non Pladuk), eleven kilometres south of Kanchanaburi, or 375 kilometres south of Thanbyuzayat. Tamuang served as a transit camp and hospital for ... Read More

Last week at the Papermoney fair in Valkenburg, a collector came to my table with a 25 Gulden note from the Netherlands Indies with an unidentified stamp on the obverse. The text of the stamp read the two words "YERNIE" and "TIGO". I couldn't give an instant answer about the background ... Read More

Part 7, November 1925 – March 1931, printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Please find below what is to become chapter 7 of my Netherlands Indies and Indonesian paper money catalogue. This part is about the Coen II series, called that way because the portrait of the Dutch merchant and statesman ... Read More

By Rob Huisman Recently I was informed by Nico van Horn, archivist of KITLV (the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) about the existence of an extremely rare handwritten VOC bank note of 100 rijksdaalders dating from 1809 and issued in Ambon. He also send me a scan and the following ... Read More

The first papermoney of the Netherlands Indies          June 2011          By Rob Huisman          Last month a very rare VOC note  was on auction at the prestigious auction house for historical stock certificates HWPH Historisches Wertpapierhaus AG (HWPH) in Germany. Bidding started at 1.200  Euro and the lot was finally sold for 10.500 Euro, a fair price - knowing ... Read More

New discovery: Netherlands Indies 5 gulden 1942 without specimen overprint and perforation, by Rob huisman, 24 May 2011. Recently I was contacted by a British couple for an appraisal of a 5 gulden note from the Netherlands Indies, dated 1942. They were tidying up their loft and found the note that ... Read More

The first papermoney of the Netherlands Indies May 2010 By Johan Piers and Rob Huisman At the end of the 18th century, the first kind of papermoney appeared in the Netherlands Indies. The notes were issued by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that represented the Dutch interests in the East. Many money transports ... Read More

De Javasche Bank note issues, January 1864 - April 1895, printed by Joh. Enschede en Zn. September 2009  By Rob Huisman  In 1863, De Javasche Bank, established in 1828, was the circulation bank of the Netherlands Indies. One would expect it to be a well-established colonial institution, however the opposite is true. Research ... Read More

Camps in Paradise (1942 - 1945) Camp money in the Netherlands Indies by  Hans P. van Weeren Camp money in the Netherlands Indies can be subdivided into two groups: camp notes that were issued by the Dutch authorities and camp notes issued during the occupation by the Japanese. 1.  Camp money issued by ... Read More

February 2009    By Rob Huisman  All banknotes issued by De Javasche Bank in the Netherlands Indies during the period 1864 till 1931 and printed by Johan Enschede en Zonen, carry a security code, printed on the lower right corner of the reverse. The code is printed black in an elliptical stamp ... Read More