Catalog
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 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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| Reverse lettering | 5 5 Tanda pembajaran ini dianggap sah sebagai "wang kertas" seperti tersebut dalam pasal IX sampai XIII dari undang-2 Presiden No. 1 b 1946 tentang peraturan hukum pidana. |
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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 Surviving examples are notably scarce; many were withdrawn and destroyed once Bank Indonesia consolidated the Republican currency system.