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10 Roepiah Japanese Occupation
| Issuer | Japanese Imperial Government (Dai Nippon Teikoku Seihu) |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DAI NIPPON TEIKOKU SEIHU SEPOELOEH ROEPIAH 府政國帝本日大 (Translation: Imperial Government of Japan Ten Roepiah Imperial Government of Japan) |
| Reverse description | Printed in purple on cream paper. Two seated Buddha statues in meditation posture flank a central ornate guilloche medallion, each set against the backdrop of a Borobudur stupa; the numeral 10 appears in a cartouche at the bottom centre, with smaller stupa vignettes rendered in fine intaglio-style line work in the lower flanking panels. |
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Part of the second series of Japanese military currency issued for the Dutch East Indies, this note was printed in Tokyo and shipped to the archipelago as Japan's occupation administration expanded its paper money supply well beyond what the local economy could absorb. By 1944, inflation in the occupied territories was accelerating sharply — the Roepiah issues were being produced in volume with little regard for monetary discipline, and the population increasingly refused them or exchanged them at steep discounts against pre-war Dutch colonial currency.
The National Printing Bureau had been producing occupation currency for multiple theatres simultaneously, and quality control in the later issues shows it.