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10 Rupiah
| Issuer | Governor of Sumatra, Bukittinggi |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA PROPINSI SUMATERA TANDA PEMBAJARAN 10 SEPULUH RUPIAH GUBERNUR SUMATERA 1948 |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai "Uang kertas" seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari undang2 Presiden No.1 Th. 1948 tentang peraturan hukum Pidana. |
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The Governor of Sumatra's note-issuing activity out of Bukittinggi — then functioning as the de facto capital of the Indonesian Republican administration in Sumatra — was a direct response to the Dutch military offensives of 1947–1948 that had severed much of Java's administrative reach. These emissions were explicitly republican instruments, circulating in territory that was actively contested.
Printed locally under wartime conditions, production quality across the S193 series is predictably uneven. Paper stock and ink consistency vary noticeably between surviving examples — a known characteristic of the issue, not damage or mishandling.