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1 Rupiah Sumatra Province - Pematang Siantar
| Issuer | Propinsi Soematera (Sumatra Province) |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | An oval portrait vignette of President Soekarno is positioned at left against a guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of an erupting volcano framed by stylised rays and flanked by decorative side panels. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central vignette, attributed to the Director of Bank Negara Indonesia P.M. Siantar and the Head of the Finance Department of Sumatra Province. The place and date P. SIANTAR, 11 MAART 1947 are printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single colour on a fine guilloche ground, with two large circular medallions at left and right each bearing the bold numeral '1'. A rectangular text panel occupies the centre between the two medallions, and an interlocking guilloche border frames the entire composition. |
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Propinsi Soematera issued this note during the Indonesian National Revolution, when the Dutch blockade had severed the Republic's access to printing resources controlled from Java. Provincial and regional authorities across Sumatra improvised their own currency to keep local economies functioning — this 1 Rupiah is one product of that scramble. Printed locally in Pematang Siantar, a highland town in the Batak region, the note circulated alongside a patchwork of other emergency issues, some of even more rudimentary production.
The series is catalogued under P#S351, the "S" prefix signifying its status as a regional emergency issue rather than a nationally sanctioned emission from Jogjakarta.