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40 Rupiah
| Issuer | Keresidenan Palembang (Residency of Palembang) |
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| Year | 1949 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Crude letterpress-printed emergency issue in red ink on plain paper, divided into two panels. The left panel bears the word 'Cheque' at upper left, a stylised pineapple or floral vignette, and the large numeral '40', with the issuing authority inscription 'Komandan STP' and a signature line reading 'CT. Letkol. Bambang...' at the base. The right panel carries the denomination in full 'Empat Puluh Rupiah', the national inscription 'Republik Indonesia', a landscape vignette of low hills or terrain, and the regional authority text 'Keresidenan Palembang' with a date stamp of 6 July 1949. |
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| Obverse lettering | Cheque 40 EMPAT PULUH RUPIAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA KERESIDENAN PALEMBANG KOMANDAN STP CT. LETKOL. BAMBANG... |
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Palembang was one of several Dutch-era residencies in Sumatra that issued its own emergency currency during the Indonesian National Revolution. These locally printed notes filled a practical void — the new Republic's central supply chain was unreliable, and Palembang's distance from Java made waiting for Jakarta impractical. The residency-level issues were never formally coordinated with the Republic's monetary authorities, which gives them an ambiguous status: neither quite guerrilla currency nor orthodox state money.
Printing was rudimentary by necessity. Expect uneven ink distribution and variable registration — not degradation, but the original character of wartime provincial production.