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50 Sen
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#9, Schön#5 |
| Obverse description | Left-facing portrait bust of Prince Diponegoro (Pangeran Diponegoro), the celebrated Indonesian national hero, rendered in high relief. The effigy is surrounded by a bilingual legend appearing in both Latin and Arabic Jawi scripts, identifying the subject. The inscription arcs around the upper and lower portions of the field, framing the portrait. |
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| Mint | Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date) |
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Indonesia's early post-independence coinage was struck abroad while the country's own minting infrastructure remained undeveloped — this issue was produced at the Utrecht Mint in the Netherlands, an arrangement that carried obvious political awkwardness given the Dutch had relinquished sovereignty over the archipelago only three years prior, and only after significant international pressure and armed struggle.