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10 Rupiah Serang, Banten Residency
| Issuer | Residency of Banten (Residen Banten) |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the historic Grand Mosque of Banten (Masjid Agung Banten) with its distinctive multi-tiered minaret, set within an arched frame against a pale yellow underprint with a geometric guilloche pattern. Denomination numerals '10' appear in the upper left and right corners, flanked by decorative foliate and floral motifs including a pineapple device on the right margin; two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left (Panitia Keuangan) and lower right (Residen Banten), with the place and date 'Serang, 15 Desember 1947' printed below the right signature. |
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| Reverse description | Unadorned cream ground carrying a central legal text panel set within an arched cartouche, flanked on either side by large boldly printed denomination numerals '10' in green. The border is composed of stylised Javanese-Islamic ornamental scrollwork with a repeating foliate frieze along the lower margin, printed entirely in green. |
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One of dozens of regional emergency issues that proliferated across the Dutch East Indies during the Indonesian National Revolution, this note was produced locally in Serang — the administrative capital of the Banten residency — as the newly proclaimed Republic struggled to maintain a functioning monetary system against Dutch military and economic pressure. Central supply from Batavia or Yogyakarta was unreliable at best, and residencies often printed their own obligations simply to keep local commerce moving.
Banten had its own long history of resistance to outside authority, stretching back to the Dutch VOC period, which gave the residency's wartime administration a degree of autonomous character that shows up in its independent currency decisions. The paper and printing quality on these local issues varied considerably; Serang had no professional printing infrastructure, and it shows.