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| Uitgever | Government of Sumatra (Governor of Bukittinggi) |
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| Jaar | 1947 |
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| Valuta | Rupiah (1945-date) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The obverse is centred on a guilloche-framed vignette of a tropical coastal landscape with palm trees and mountains, with the numeral '10' at its centre. The inscription 'TANDA PEMBAJARAN JANG SAH' runs along the top, while a ribbon cartouche below carries the denomination legend 'SEPULUH RUPIAH'. The lower portion bears the place and date 'BUKITTINGGI, 17.8.1947', a serial number prefix, the authority inscription 'GUBERNUR SUMATERA', and a manuscript signature. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed in a single mauve-brown tone over an overall wavy-line guilloche underprint that covers the entire field. A central octagonal-bordered panel carries a legal tender declaration in Bahasa Indonesia, citing the relevant presidential decree. The numeral '10' appears within hexagonal frames at both the left and right margins. |
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The Government of Sumatra issued these notes from Bukittinggi, the highland town in West Sumatra that served as the provisional capital of the Republic's Sumatran administration during the independence struggle against the Dutch. Bukittinggi — formerly Fort de Kock — became the administrative and logistical center after the Dutch reoccupied Jakarta in late 1945, and much of the Republican civil and military apparatus on the island operated from there through the late 1940s.
Notes printed locally under wartime and near-wartime conditions rarely met metropolitan production standards, and S185 is no exception — paper quality and ink consistency vary noticeably across surviving examples. The series was a practical necessity, not a deliberate monetary architecture.