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1/2 Roepiah Japanese Occupation
| Issuer | Japanese Imperial Government (Dai Nippon Teikoku Seihu) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Gray-black on light tan underprint. The entire reverse is occupied by an elaborate symmetrical vignette of stylized Javanese-influenced ornamental scrollwork and mythical bird motifs radiating from a central large fraction numeral '1/2', with the denomination 'ROEPIAH' inscribed in a cartouche along the lower border and smaller '1/2' numerals repeated in the lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | 1/2 ROEPIAH (Translation: Half roepiah) |
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The Japanese military administration issued a unified occupation currency for the Dutch East Indies rather than multiple regional scrips — a deliberate policy of monetary consolidation across the archipelago. This half-roepiah belongs to the final 1944 series printed in Japan, by which point Allied submarine warfare was severely disrupting shipping routes to the occupied territories, and distribution of freshly printed notes to field administrators had become logistically precarious.
The series is notably common in high grades precisely because significant quantities never reached circulation before the August 1945 surrender.