Malay-Arabic text inside circle and Javanese at the ends of the circle meaning "1 part 10" of the "rupiah".

Depicts the coat of arms the Kingdom of the Netherlands dividing value, colony name above, date below.

The coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was originally adopted in 1815 and later modified in 1907. The arms are a composite of the arms of the former Dutch Republic and the arms of the House of Nassau, it features a checkered shield with a lion grasping a sword in one hand and a bundle of seven arrows in the other and is the heraldic symbol of the monarch and the country. The lion comes from the arms of the House of Nassau. The sword and sheaf of arrows in the lion’s paws come from the coat of arms of the States General of the Republic of the United Provinces. The seven arrows stand for the seven provinces of the Union of Utrecht. The shield is crowned with the Dutch Royal Crown.

Mintmaster privy mark:
• grape (Dr. W.J. van Heteren, 1933-1942)
• palmtree (1941-1945)

Mint mark:
• Caduceus (Mercury's wand, a short staff entwined by two serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings), the logo of the Royal Dutch Mint (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
• P (Philadelphia Mint, Pennsylvania, USA)
• S (San Francisco Mint, California, USA)