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2 1/2 Rupiah Djambi Residency
| Issuer | Residency of Djambi (Regional Government of the Republic of Indonesia) |
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| Year | 1947-1948 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S-264 |
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| Obverse lettering | Coupon Penukaran Pemerintah Negara Republik Indonesia Daerah Djambi mendjamin Coupon Penukaran ini dengah mata Uang Republik Indonesia seharga: Dua Setengah Rupiah Residen N.R.I. Djambi (Translation: Exchange Coupon Regional Government of the Republic of Indonesia Djambi guarantees this Exchange Coupon for the currency of the Republic of Indonesia at: Two and a half Rupiah Resident N.R.I. Djambi) |
| Reverse description | Yellow-ochre field printed in dark brown, with the large decorative numeral '2½' repeated at left within the same floral and foliate vignette as the obverse, including a rosette bloom at lower left. The central area is occupied by a rectangular text panel containing the legal validity clause and the issue date, surrounded by scrolling botanical border ornaments running along all four edges. |
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The Djambi Residency issues of 1947–1948 belong to the chaotic first years of Indonesian independence, when the central government in Yogyakarta had neither the infrastructure nor the security to supply paper currency reliably to outlying regions. Individual residencies — Djambi among them — were authorized or simply compelled to print their own emergency notes to keep local commerce moving during the Dutch military campaigns that were actively disrupting supply lines across Sumatra.
Locally produced, these notes were never intended to circulate beyond the residency boundaries, and most were withdrawn once central Republican currency became available. Survivors are scarce precisely because they were treated as disposable instruments from the start.