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10 Rupiah Overprint
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Printer | Pertjetakan Kebajoran (Percetakan Kebayoran), Jakarta, Indonesia (1952-1971) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also in rose-red on a pale guilloche underprint, presents a vignette of two Javanese women in traditional dress and floral headdresses occupying the right half of the design, with decorative scrollwork and floral borders framing the left panel. The denomination "SEPULUH RUPIAH" is lettered across the top and the numeral "10" appears at lower left within an ornate cartouche. A legal warning inscription runs along the lower margin in small letterpress text. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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This note belongs to a short-lived overprint series issued when Bank Indonesia needed to rapidly remonetize lower denominations amid the economic disorder of the early Sukarno period. Rather than commission a full new printing, existing stock was overprinted at Percetakan Kebayoran — the state printer that handled much of Indonesia's domestic currency work during this period — a cost-saving measure that also reflects how strained government finances were by 1963.
The Pick R04 designation places it in the regional/emergency category, and surviving examples with clean overprint registration are harder to find than the catalog suggests.