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1 Rupiah Tandjungkarang, Lampung
| Issuer | Keresidenan Lampung (Lampung Residency) |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark purple letterpress print on white paper with floral and foliate border vignettes at left and right. A bold arched panel carries the issuing authority text, with the denomination numeral '1' at lower corners. A rectangular text box at centre contains the legal tender clause, below which the date and place of issue appear above the serial number and manuscript signature. An oval official stamp is applied at left. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing a strong bleed-through impression of the obverse letterpress design in pale ghost form on plain white paper. |
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Keresidenan Lampung was one of several Indonesian residencies that issued its own emergency currency during the revolution against Dutch rule — a direct response to the near-total breakdown of centralized supply and distribution networks across Sumatra. These residency-level issues were locally printed with rudimentary equipment, which is why paper quality, ink consistency, and registration vary considerably even within the same series.
Tandjungkarang, then the administrative capital of the Lampung residency, handled production itself rather than relying on Batavia or Yogyakarta. Notes from this issuer are genuinely scarce in any condition — provincial revolutionary currency rarely survived the transition to Republic of Indonesia standardization after 1950.