Catalog
10 Sen
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1951-1954 |
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| Composition | Aluminium |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Garuda Pancasila, the Indonesian national emblem, rendered as a stylised eagle with wings fully spread, facing to the right. The bird's breast bears a quartered heraldic shield displaying the symbols of the Indonesian state, including a star, buffalo head, banyan tree, and rice and cotton sprigs. A scroll beneath the Garuda carries the motto legend in Latin script. The Arabic legend إندونيسيا (Indonesia) is inscribed across the upper field above the eagle's wings, engraved in a flowing Naskh hand. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Indonesia's early aluminum coinage was issued under acute postcolonial fiscal pressure — the new republic lacked both the industrial infrastructure and the foreign exchange reserves to mint in anything more expensive. The 10 Sen series was produced at the Utrecht Mint in the Netherlands, an arrangement that carried obvious political awkwardness given the Dutch-Indonesian Union had only just been dissolved in 1956 after years of bitter dispute over sovereignty.