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250 Rupiah
| Issuer | Residency of Sumatera Utara (North Sumatra), Kutaradja |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Value | 250 Rupiah |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK - INDONESIA Dua Ratus Lima Puluh Rupiah Kutaradja, 1 Maret 1949. Gubernur Sumatera Utara Tanda pembajaran jang sah berlaku untuk Daerah Sumatera Utara. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNDANG2 Barang siapa jang meniru atau memalsu uang kertas Negara atau dengan sengadja mengedarkan, menjimpan ataupun memasukkan uang kertas tiruan atau palsu, dapat dihukum menurut Kitab undang2 Hukum Pidana pasal 244, 245 dan 249. 250 Dua ratus lima puluh RUPIAH Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai uang kertas seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari Undang2 Presiden No 1 thn. 1946 tentang peraturan hukum Pidana. |
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The Residency of Sumatera Utara notes from 1949 belong to a chaotic transitional moment — the Dutch were fighting to reassert colonial control during the Indonesian National Revolution, while Republican authorities were issuing emergency regional currency to keep local economies functioning outside Dutch-held territory. Kutaradja, the administrative capital of Aceh, was firmly in Republican hands through most of this period, which made it a practical center for emergency issue operations.
Regional residency notes like this one were stopgap instruments, authorized locally rather than through the central Republic's banking apparatus in Yogyakarta. Survival rates are low — wartime paper, heavy circulation, and no organized archival collection effort account for that.