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Test Note - Gajah Mada
| Issuer | Perum Peruri (Percetakan Uang Republik Indonesia) |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At center-right, a large intaglio portrait vignette of Gajah Mada, the legendary Majapahit prime minister and military commander, executed in fine engraved line work; to the left, a silhouette of Gajah Mada brandishing a keris is framed by ornamental guilloche patterns, with a golden emblem above bearing the inscription SUMPAH PALAPA. The multicolour underprint is composed of complex radial guilloche rosettes and fine geometric micropatterns extending across the entire field. |
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| Reverse description | At left-center, an intaglio vignette of the Gapura Wringinlawang, a candi bentar split-gate monument of the Majapahit era, incorporating repeated PERURI microtext as a latent security element. To the right, a finely engraved geometric grid pattern evokes a historical map of the Nusantara archipelago as it existed in the fourteenth century, with a circular vignette at lower right enclosing a silhouette of a mounted horse and rider. The polychrome underprint employs pastel gradients of green, yellow, orange, and blue, bordered by decorative guilloche scrollwork along both lateral margins. |
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Perum Peruri — the state security printing works established in 1971 — produces test notes periodically for internal calibration and equipment trials rather than for any circulation purpose. These pieces are not legal tender and were never intended to be; they exist to verify ink adhesion, registration, and substrate performance on live production machinery.
The "Gajah Mada" designation references the 14th-century Majapahit prime minister whose name has been attached to several Indonesian institutional projects, here serving as a series identifier rather than a commemorative statement.
Test notes from Karawang rarely leave the facility through official channels.