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5 Rupiah
| Issuer | Keresidenan Atjeh (Residency of Aceh), Koetaradja |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Value | 5 Rupiah |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue-grey on plain paper with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire note. At upper centre, the heading REPUBLIK INDONESIA and KERESIDENAN ATJEH appear in bold letterpress, with the serial number and denomination numeral 5 to the right. A central oval vignette at left contains a bust portrait of a man wearing a peci (Indonesian cap). Below the portrait, a block of Indonesian text sets out the legal tender conditions, dated Koetaradja, 15 Djanocari 1948, followed by three manuscript signatures and their respective titles. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK INDONESIA KERESIDENAN ATJEH LC No 21745 LIMA RUPIAH 5 Tanda pembajaran jang sah buat sementara, akan ditukar dengan mata wang Rep. Indonesia Prop. Sumatera, sesudah mendapat ketetapan dari Gubernur Prop. Sumatera. Diterima oleh Perwakilan Bank Negara Indonesia dan segala Kas Negara di Keresidenan Atjeh. Koetaradja, 15 Djanocari 1948. Peng. Oesang Negara Keresidenan Atjeh Residen Atjeh Perw. Bank Negara Koetaradja |
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The Residency of Aceh's emergency currency of 1948 belongs to a scattered body of local Indonesian Republican issues produced during the Dutch "Police Actions" — the military campaigns aimed at reasserting colonial control after Japan's defeat. Cut off from central supply lines and facing acute currency shortages, individual residencies were authorized to print their own notes, resulting in a patchwork of regional issues with wildly varying paper quality and print runs.
Koetaradja — now Banda Aceh — had a long history of resistance to outside authority, and these locally issued notes carried real political weight in a region that had fought Dutch rule hard. Surviving examples are notably scarce; many were withdrawn and destroyed once Bank Indonesia consolidated the Republican currency system.