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500 Rupiah Semanotus russicus
| Issuer | Indonesia › Indonesia (1949-date) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Weight | 12.8 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SUMATERA UTARA 500 RUPIAH |
| Reverse description | Central design features a detailed engraving of the longhorn beetle Semanotus russicus, rendered in naturalistic style occupying the majority of the coin's field. The binomial scientific name 'Semanotus russicus' is inscribed along the upper portion of the field in Latin script. The year of issue '2018' appears in the lower field beneath the insect motif. |
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Part of Indonesia's 2016-series rupiah coinage, which replaced the previous circulation types under Bank Indonesia's currency renewal program — a wholesale reissue driven partly by counterfeiting concerns and partly by the degraded state of coins that had been circulating since the 1990s. The Semanotus russicus featured here is a longhorn beetle found across parts of Asia, slotted into a broader conservation theme running through the series that assigned endemic and regionally significant fauna to denominations.
The brass composition was a deliberate cost-control choice; earlier high-denomination rupiah coins had used bimetallic or aluminium-bronze formats that proved expensive at scale.