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5 Sen
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1962 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA SUKARNO (Translation: President of the Republic of Indonesia) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Indonesia's aluminium small-denomination coinage of the early 1960s was struck during a period of severe fiscal strain under Sukarno's Guided Democracy, when chronic budget deficits and aggressive money-printing were already eroding the rupiah's purchasing power. By the mid-1960s, inflation had made coins of this value functionally worthless in daily trade. Most were either hoarded as metal or simply abandoned, which ironically accounts for the high-grade survivors seen today — not careful preservation, but economic collapse rendering them unspendable before they could wear.