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250.000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Treasury, Rantau Prapat |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | A rudimentary typewritten emergency issue on thin paper, with the heading NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA at top centre. The denomination 250000 appears in large bold numerals within a central panel, accompanied by the full written value DOEA RATOES LI... GELOEN RINDE ROEPIAH below. Issuing authority references to Kabupaten Laboehan Batoe and Rantau Prapat are inscribed in the lower field, flanked by manuscript signatures at lower left and right, with a partially legible blue circular official seal and a date notation. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA 250000 DOEA RATOES LI... GELOEN RINDE ROEPIAH KABOEPATEN LABOEHAN BATOE RANTAU PRAPAT Mt. Kecamatan 4/n. Boepati Putih |
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Rantau Prapat was a town in East Sumatra, and in 1948 it was operating well outside the monetary framework being assembled in Yogyakarta. This note is one of several emergency regional issues produced during the Indonesian National Revolution, when Dutch military operations had fragmented Republican-controlled territory into pockets that sometimes printed their own paper to keep local economies functioning. The Treasury designation here is loose — these were essentially ad hoc issues under regional civilian authority, not central government instruments.
The denomination itself signals acute inflationary pressure at the time of issue.