Catalog
1 Rupiah Serang, Banten Residency
| Issuer | Residen Banten (Banten Residency Emergency Issue) |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Rupiah (1945-1950) |
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| Obverse description | Pink letterpress emergency note printed on white paper, with a central vignette of rice and cotton stalks encircling a gun, hammer, and hoe — symbols of the Indonesian revolutionary struggle. A large numeral '1' appears at left within a decorative border, flanked by a guilloche-style frame running the full perimeter. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre and lower right, with the series prefix 'HA' and a black-stamped serial number in the central field. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA UANG KERTAS DARURAT TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH SATU RUPIAH PANITIA KEUANGAN, SERANG, 15 DESEMBER 1947 RESIDEN BANTEN. |
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Banten Residency's 1947 emergency issues belong to the chaotic interim period of Indonesian independence, when the Dutch were reasserting control through military action and central banking had effectively collapsed across much of Java. Local civilian administrations — residencies, municipalities, even individual districts — filled the vacuum by issuing their own currency, typically under explicit authorization from the Republican government in Yogyakarta but with wildly inconsistent production standards.
The Serang designation refers to the residency capital, not a separate issuing authority. These notes circulated alongside a half-dozen other local issues and were formally demonetized once Bank Indonesia consolidated Republican currency after 1949. Survivors tend to show heavy use.