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500 Rupiah
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1988 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | A full-bodied intaglio vignette of a Timorese stag (Cervus timorensis) stands to the left against a naturalistic woodland underprint, with the denomination numeral 500 at upper left and lower right. The centre bears the issuer's name BANK INDONESIA in bold letterpress over an elaborate multicolour guilloche rosette, with the date 1988 and two facsimile signatures below the titles GUBERNUR and DIREKTUR. The Garuda Pancasila state emblem appears at upper right, framed by fine lathe-work borders across the top and bottom margins. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Bank Indonesia Cirebon branch building (Gedung Bank Indonesia Cirebon), a Dutch colonial-era structure rendered in fine line engraving with mature trees in the foreground. Multicolour guilloche underprint panels and lathe-work ornaments frame the composition, with the denomination numeral 500 at upper left and lower right. A statutory anti-counterfeiting notice in Bahasa Indonesia is set in a bordered panel below the building vignette. |
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Perum Peruri — Perusahaan Umum Percetakan Uang Republik Indonesia — had been printing Indonesia's banknotes domestically since 1971, ending the country's long reliance on foreign security printers. This 1988 500 Rupiah belongs to a period when the state-owned facility in Karawang was still consolidating its production standards, and quality consistency across print runs from this era can vary noticeably.
The watermark is the sole mechanical security feature, a relatively modest specification for a denomination that would have seen heavy daily use in late-1980s urban Indonesia.