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10 000 Rupiah Red
| Issuer | Bank Indonesia |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Value | 10 000 Rupiah (10 000) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette at left presents two fishermen handling rigging aboard a traditional sailing vessel, rendered in intaglio against a fine guilloche underprint. At upper centre, the issuer name BANK INDONESIA is printed in bold letterpress, with the denomination SEPULUH RIBU RUPIAH in large display type occupying the centre field and the year 1964 below. An ornate circular guilloche rosette with a laurel-wreath border occupies the right panel, flanked by decorative scroll borders at each side. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a tranquil coastal harbour scene with traditional Indonesian sailing proas moored at a wooden jetty, palm trees and thatched huts visible along the shoreline in the background, executed in fine intaglio line work. Two large oval guilloche medallions flank the central scene on left and right, with the numeral 10000 rendered in ornate script at lower right and upper left. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting text in Indonesian appears in a panel along the lower margin. |
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By 1964, Indonesia's money supply was expanding far beyond what the economy could absorb. Sukarno's "Guided Economy" policy had effectively subordinated monetary discipline to political ambition, and Bank Indonesia was issuing high-denomination notes at a pace that rendered them nearly worthless within months of printing. This 10,000 Rupiah note was part of that inflationary spiral — a denomination that would have seemed extraordinary just a few years earlier but was becoming routine by mid-decade.
Percetakan Kebayoran was the state printing works established in the early 1950s to give Indonesia domestic control over its currency production, reducing dependence on foreign security printers. The 1965 currency reform ultimately slashed the rupiah by a factor of 1,000, making this note redeemable for exactly 10 new sen.