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250.000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Kabupaten Labuhan Batu, Rantau Prapat |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA 250000 (Dua ratus lima puluh ribu rupiah) B O N KABUPATEN LABUHAN BATU RANTAU PRAPAT Stencil No. 9/c Keuangan An.Bupati Serie rap II Maret 26 1948 |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Kabupaten Labuhan Batu was one of dozens of Indonesian regional authorities that issued emergency currency during the 1945–1949 revolution, when the fledgling Republic struggled to establish a functioning monetary system against Dutch military and economic pressure. These locally produced notes — often printed with rudimentary equipment and authenticated by official stamp rather than sophisticated security features — filled a genuine vacuum in areas where Republican-issue currency was scarce or distrusted.
The Rantau Prapat issues are among the harder regional emissions to document cleanly, as record-keeping at the kabupaten level was inconsistent during active conflict periods. The stamp authentication was the note's only safeguard against forgery — a thin guarantee, but the standard instrument of trust in revolutionary-era Sumatra.