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1 Rupiah ORI I
| Issuer | Republik Indonesia |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Reference(s) | P#17 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse centres on a large smoking volcano vignette, with numeral '1' in the upper corners. Flanking the central vignette are rectangular panels containing the statutory warning text headed 'Undang2' with applicable penal code article references. |
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| Variants | P#17a - serial # and letters 6 digit serial # and two capital Block letters, or one capital and one lower case letter P#17b - without serial #, 2 capital Block letters only |
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The "ORI" designation stands for Oeang Repoeblik Indonesia — the Republic's own currency, issued in October 1945 just weeks after Sukarno's independence proclamation. Producing a national currency that quickly, under Dutch blockade and active military pressure, was a deliberate political act as much as a financial one. The notes were printed domestically under severely constrained conditions, which is why print quality varies so dramatically across the series.
P#17 circulated in one of the most chaotic monetary environments of the 20th century, competing simultaneously with Japanese occupation scrip, Dutch colonial guilders, and locally issued regional notes.