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1 Rupiah
| Issuer | Gouverneur van Sumatra (Governor of Sumatra), Bukittinggi |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 1 Rupiah |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the obverse bears a portrait vignette of a Sumatran man in traditional dress within an oval frame at left, flanked by fine line guilloche patterns. The large numeral '1' appears in the upper corners and centrally in bold type, with the denomination SATU RUPIAH printed in large letters across the centre. A small landscape vignette with mountains is visible to the right of centre, below which appears a boxed signature panel inscribed GOEBERNAUR SUMATERA and dated BKTIGGGI 17-5-1947, with the issuing authority inscription PROPINSI SUMATERA along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | SATU RUPIAH 1 Diterima sebagai pembajaran oleh segala Bank Negara Indonesia dan Kas Negara diseluruh Sumatera untuk ditukar dengan mata uang Republik Indonesia sesudah resmi dikeluarkan di Sumatera. Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai "Uang kertas" seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari undang2 Presiden No.1 th. 1946 tentang Peraturan hukum Pidana. |
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The Gouverneur van Sumatra notes were emergency issues produced during the Indonesian National Revolution, when the newly proclaimed Republic of Indonesia controlled parts of Sumatra while Dutch forces were attempting to reassert colonial authority. Bukittinggi — then called Fort de Kock — served as the de facto capital of Republican Sumatra, and the local administration issued its own currency partly because central supply lines from Java were unreliable and partly to assert administrative legitimacy in the region.
Printing under those conditions was improvised. Paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples, and misaligned impressions are common enough to be considered normal for the series rather than errors.