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1000 Roepiah Japanese Occupation
| Issuer | Japanese Government (Dai Nippon Teikoku Seifu) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 1000 Roepiah |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green and purple, the obverse centres on a vignette of a pair of oxen drawing a cart, enclosed within an ornate guilloche border. Bilingual inscriptions in Indonesian and Japanese characters are arranged across the face, including the legend 'Pemerintah Dai Nippon' alongside its Chinese-character equivalent, with denomination numerals appearing in both scripts. A plate-letter prefix 'S' serves as serial identifier. |
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| Reverse description | Executed in dark blue-green, the reverse bears a finely engraved central vignette of a farmer wading through a shallow stream accompanied by two water buffalo, framed within an elaborate scrollwork and guilloche border. Oval cartouches carrying the denomination numeral '1000' are positioned at left and right, with shell and acanthus ornamental devices at each corner. The agrarian composition is consistent with Japanese occupation currency issued for the Netherlands East Indies. |
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The Japanese military currency issued for the Dutch East Indies during the occupation ran through several series, but by 1945 the infrastructure supporting meaningful monetary policy had largely collapsed. This 1000 Roepiah note was printed in Tokyo as the war situation deteriorated, and it was never intended to function as a stable store of value — Japanese occupation currency in the Indies suffered hyperinflationary pressure almost from the moment of issue, compounded by deliberate overprinting to fund military operations without drawing on home reserves.
After the August 1945 surrender, the Dutch attempted to suppress continued use of Japanese occupation issues, but Sukarno's republican forces actively circulated them during the independence struggle, briefly giving these notes a second political life they were never designed for.