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600 Rupiah ORI IV
| Issuer | Republik Indonesia |
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| Year | 1948 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green letterpress print with the denomination numeral "600" repeated in the upper left and right corners. A vignette portrait of President Sukarno appears at the left, with the denomination in full text rendered along the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper field with a single vignette of a charging bull in left-centre position, rendered in a simple, unadorned style against an otherwise blank background. |
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The ORI (Oeang Repoeblik Indonesia) series was the first currency issued by the Indonesian Republic after its 1945 declaration of independence, printed and circulated under active Dutch military pressure. By the time this 600 Rupiah note appeared in 1948, the Dutch had launched their first "police action" and the Republican government was operating from Yogyakarta under siege conditions. Currency production under those circumstances was improvised and decentralized — printing quality and paper supply were both unreliable, which accounts for the significant variation in paper stock found across surviving examples.
The 600 Rupiah denomination is an unusual face value by any standard, likely a product of wartime inflation arithmetic rather than conventional monetary planning.