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50.000 Rupiah
| Issuer | Negara Republik Indonesia (Emergency issue, Laboehan Bilik, Sumatra) |
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| Year | 1948 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Crude emergency-issue note on plain paper, with a central vignette of a building rendered in a rough letterpress print in red-brown ink. The upper field carries the inscription NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA flanked by serial number and series references; the lower field bears the denomination in words LIMA PULUH RIBU RUPIAH twice, along with a date stamp and manuscript signatures. An official circular cachet in red ink appears at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | SERI B.A.B. St. No. No. 237261 NEGARA REPUBLIK INDONESIA LIMA PULUH RIBU RUPIAH KEBEDAFAAN PAPAI 50000 L. Bilik 6-9-1948 |
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This note belongs to the emergency issues produced by the Indonesian Republic during the physical and administrative chaos of the independence struggle. Laboehan Bilik — a small coastal town on Sumatra's east coast — became a temporary production site precisely because the Republican government could not safely centralize printing. Dutch military operations under the first "Police Action" of July 1947 had fractured Republican-controlled territory, forcing currency production into whatever facilities could be secured locally.
The P#311B designation distinguishes this from related variants in the series. Provenance documentation matters here — attribution between the Sumatran emergency types is frequently confused in older collections.