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2.500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1959 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red-brown intaglio, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of birds of paradise in a naturalistic landscape, with one bird displaying its full fan-shaped plumage at centre while two additional birds are visible at left and right against a background of trees and open sky. Decorative guilloche panels with traditional Indonesion ornamental motifs frame the upper border, and two oval blank cartouches appear at the lower flanks. The numeral 2500 is placed at upper left and lower right in bold figures. |
| Reverse lettering | 2500 |
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This note belongs to the Seri Hewan (Animal Series), issued by Bank Indonesia during the brief constitutional democracy period before Sukarno's Guided Democracy took full hold — a politically turbulent window that affected monetary policy as much as anything else. The 1959 currency reform that followed, announced by emergency decree in August of that year, slashed the face value of high-denomination notes by 90%, effectively wiping out savings held in large bills and pulling liquidity from circulation almost overnight.
Thomas De La Rue's London production is consistent with Bank Indonesia's reliance on foreign security printers throughout the 1950s, before domestic printing capacity matured.