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10 Rupiah
| Issuer | Republik Indonesia - Sub Propinsi Sumatera Selatan (Sub-Province of South Sumatra), Bukittinggi |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Currency | Rupiah (1945-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue monochrome note with the large word 'SEPULUH' (Ten) in bold letterpress across the centre, above the denomination 'RUPIAH'. The upper portion carries the inscription 'REPUBLIK INDONESIA PROPINSI SUMATERA' flanked by decorative Sumatran motifs, while a vignette of a traditional Sumatran temple or pagoda structure appears at the lower right. Numeral '10' appears in each corner, with the Governor of Sumatra's signature and the place and date 'B. Tinggi, 1.1.1948' at the lower centre, beneath the legend 'BERLAKU UNTUK SUB PROPINSI SUMATERA SELATAN'. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA PROPINSI SUMATERA TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH SEPULUH RUPIAH GUBERNUR SUMATERA B. TINGGI, 1.1.1948 BERLAKU UNTUK SUB PROPINSI SUMATERA SELATAN |
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This note belongs to the remarkable burst of locally-issued emergency currency that proliferated across Sumatra during the Indonesian National Revolution. With the Dutch reimposing colonial control over Java and the Republican government under severe pressure, regional and sub-provincial authorities took it upon themselves to print money independently — P#203 is one product of that administrative improvisation. Bukittinggi served as the de facto Republican capital of Sumatra during this period, which lent these issues a degree of official weight they might not otherwise have carried.
The Sub-Province of South Sumatra designation is historically awkward — the boundaries and administrative hierarchies of Republican-controlled territory were fluid and often contested both by the Dutch and by competing Indonesian factions.